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wizard
Posted 2008-01-15 6:50 AM (#110923 - in reply to #103611)
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Location: Southern Sweden - Sturkö island		Now I have also the back bench seat ready, I won't bore you with the same photo sequence as for the front bench seat, since the procedure is very much the same.



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wizard
Posted 2008-01-18 2:36 AM (#111252 - in reply to #103611)
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Location: Southern Sweden - Sturkö island		With dedicated stubbornness, I'm finally ready with the upholstery work. The rear backrest is done and now remains only to mount the front backrest to the front bench seat and to finish the front backrest cover. That cover is made out of masonite and will be easily done. Comes springtime, I will mount the seats and be ready for to cruise.
I'm also waiting for a new dashboard padding that eventually will be ready in February. a Swedish company, RD Autoline is at present working with the molding templates.



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wizard
Posted 2008-01-18 3:27 AM (#111257 - in reply to #103611)
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Location: Southern Sweden - Sturkö island		Here are some pictures of my homemade hogring pincer



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wizard
Posted 2008-01-18 3:51 PM (#111332 - in reply to #103611)
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Location: Southern Sweden - Sturkö island		I hope that my posts in this issue has been helpful and triggered a wish to do it yourself. It's not easy, that's for sure, but it can be done. Please don't hesitate to pm me if you need some further information's.
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Bart_59_Dodge
Posted 2008-01-24 6:11 PM (#112160 - in reply to #103611)
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wizard
Posted 2008-01-25 2:31 AM (#112213 - in reply to #103611)
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Location: Southern Sweden - Sturkö island		Hi Bart - the last photos does show the back seat and backrest. As for the front benchseat and backrest, they are bolted together with two bolts in each front backrest bracket.



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polara61
Posted 2008-01-25 8:57 AM (#112228 - in reply to #103611)
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wizard
Posted 2008-01-25 10:44 AM (#112235 - in reply to #103611)
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Location: Southern Sweden - Sturkö island		Well thank you Nisse! You've got the humor and wittiness

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Windsor59
Posted 2008-01-25 4:03 PM (#112273 - in reply to #112235)
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Location: Upplands Väsby, Sweden		Wow VERY NICE upholstery work, I like to see pics at your reale fine jobbs. Not so many can do this at our renovaitings.
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agirlandher58
Posted 2008-04-09 3:14 AM (#124396 - in reply to #103611)
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Location: buchanan,Ga.		Your work on these looks great!!!what type of mach. do you have...i have one it's a old union special i bought it used about 2 years ago.i paid 300.00 for mine and i have made covers for my 82 corvette ,the 59 buick...with it so far i love it and would like to learn more ,i plan on making a headliner for my 58 with this too..
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wizard
Posted 2008-04-09 3:36 PM (#124452 - in reply to #103611)
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Location: Southern Sweden - Sturkö island		Dear Teffany, I had an old Singer there is some photos on it here. You should buy a machine with a "walking foot" that means that you'll have the normal fabric feeder from under and yet an other UPPER feeder - that way the fabric does not slip from the fabric or vinyl when you sew the pieces together. You should ask for a special foot for piping (passpoal). I sewed by hand a lot since the forms where so curved.
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nigel68
Posted 2008-04-10 5:56 AM (#124552 - in reply to #103611)
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Location: Vittuone (Milano) - Italy		Wow!! what a great job!! You are a great sewer! If I need my interior to be reupholstered, I'll take it to Sweden!!
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Bart_59_Dodge
Posted 2008-04-10 9:27 AM (#124563 - in reply to #103611)
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Location: Oconomowoc Wi		Hey Wiz... help me out here. ,

Ive got some swivel seats I hope to drop in sometime this summer,but they need to be completely reapholstered. I'm lucky in that I puchased a set of seat covers for a swivel set, complete, but I need all new foam and stuffings. What are the materials, layer-by-layer, to pad my seats and get them ready for the covers? You Da ( SEAT ) Man
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wizard
Posted 2008-04-10 9:30 AM (#124565 - in reply to #103611)
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Location: Southern Sweden - Sturkö island		Bart, I think the easiest way will be that I send you some samples of the material - it's a little difficult to explain well. PM you address to me again, since I cleaned up my mailbox a while ago.
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1960fury
Posted 2008-04-10 10:40 AM (#124569 - in reply to #124565)
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Location: northern germany		great job, great looking seatcovers,wizard!
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wizard
Posted 2008-04-10 10:49 AM (#124570 - in reply to #103611)
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Location: Southern Sweden - Sturkö island		Thanks Christiano and Sid, much appriciated!
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59dime
Posted 2008-04-11 12:12 AM (#124710 - in reply to #103611)
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Location: las vegas nv		those are sweet seats you do great work...i started doing my seats myself too and everyone laughed at me when they saw me using the old seats as templates, i triedto do everything by hand but it came up like crap so i gave up.i did my own door panels and i used the old ones as templates and they came out nice even my girlfriend helped me out... about a year ago my old boss sold me 8 leather cow hives from yarwood co in england for 100 bucks and i just traded 6 of them to a guy in an upholstery shop so he can re do my seats and i wont even have to put the material...SWEET! a 600 dollar job for a 100 buks... unfortunately i threw the old seat covers away so this guy is gonna have a hard time doing my seats....the last thing is my first pinstripping work on my coffin i hope i get better at it



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Posted 2008-04-11 12:21 AM (#124711 - in reply to #103611)
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Posted 2008-04-11 3:50 PM (#124808 - in reply to #124711)
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agirlandher58
Posted 2008-04-15 10:49 PM (#125672 - in reply to #103611)
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Location: buchanan,Ga.		Geez wiz!!Your THE MAN! Your work here looks fab. ,thanks for sharing the staple trick .I'll have to try that next time i'm using my machine( those old cast iron machines are very heavy but boy they use are hard to beat at sewing )I have a nice folding table-storage cab. that i use in laying out designs on and for cutting.It's a double drop leaf design so when i'm not using it it doesn't take up a lot of space.I also use a cutting board like what quilters use too it helps in making correct seam allowances.
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wizard
Posted 2008-04-16 1:42 AM (#125705 - in reply to #103611)
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Location: Southern Sweden - Sturkö island		Thank you Sam! As in all skills, trial and error and practice, makes the master. Since I'm autodidact on this, I must work by templates and the old battered up, torn, sunburned, rotten seat cover is my template. I carefully take them off and if needed I repair them to decent useful templates. At difficult passes such as sharp curves, sometimes I actually even mark out the old stitches and sew by this guideline as seen on (Resize of 14_marking.jpg).
Another tip is that you shall never have to force the material into shape - when you'll have to pull and drag too much, you'll have to stop and figure out what's wrong. Sometimes I had to redo a seem for to be satisfied with the result.

Now to start these types of works using expensive and rare materials is not a very bright idea. One could go to your local scrap yard and buy a couple of seats for lets say a popular car in decent shape and with acceptable seat covers - then buy some artificial leather and upholster them - if you're lucky, you could even sell the seats!!!

I think that you Sam, if anybody could imagine the pride and joy of to have made it by yourself. If you or Bart or anyone else needs a tip or some advices, I'll be there for you.

As for the change of the old battered up carpets - see this thread; http://www.forwardlook.net/forums/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=17783&...

The plastic tube with the red cable? Pre disposal for electric cigar lighter in the front backrest!

Here is the interior mounted in the car - missing only some trim.



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Posted 2008-04-16 10:41 PM (#125880 - in reply to #103611)
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Location: buchanan,Ga.		Thanks for the tips, your covers look even better now that they are mounted into the car , a great job!!!
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Bart_59_Dodge
Posted 2009-04-29 10:57 PM (#172287 - in reply to #103611)
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I wanted to dig this old thread up and breathe a little life back into it. I started pulling the old seat covers and mouse nest infested stuffing off the frames of the swivel seats I bought 2 summers ago. I thought that it was time to get it started. As I was dissasembling the layers of fabric and foam,I remembered this thread and the outstanding work of Sven on his own upholstery.

So I bumped it in order to keep refering to it.



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Posted 2009-04-30 12:19 PM (#172335 - in reply to #103611)
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Bart_59_Dodge
Posted 2009-05-07 9:36 PM (#173409 - in reply to #103611)
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Location: Oconomowoc Wi		Both backs are removed and old seat covers and stuffing pealed off. Id say carfully, but it didnt much matter as the mice were pretty hard on it.

It looks like 2 3/4 inches needs to be from the seat back frame on the drivers side backrest to match the passengers side backrest. It also looks like I either have to cut down (by 2 3/4") and stitchweld the reenforcing springs or rebend them. Both sound like a big pain. Maaakes me wonder if I should ditch the springs and just use different densities of apropriate foam.
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wizard
Posted 2009-05-08 1:46 AM (#173434 - in reply to #103611)
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Location: Southern Sweden - Sturkö island		No Bart - there's no foam, no matter density that will do the same work. Also, you must NOT weld the springs - they'll lose the characteristic by that. You'll need to "chop" the seat frame and attach the springs like original (into bent tabs?). Post pictures here - maybe I can help?
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VAN HELSING
Posted 2013-11-17 8:36 AM (#411161 - in reply to #103611)
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Location: Upper Hunter NSW Australia		....

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Just bumping this up a bit so I don't have to go searching for it.

Thanks to Bart for the original thread and Sven for his excellent pics and tutorial.

I'm gonna have a go at it

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BigBlockMopar
Posted 2013-11-17 12:16 PM (#411195 - in reply to #103611)
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Location: Netherlands		You could also print it out or just bookmark the thread instead of digging up this 6 year old topic...
Or, why not create some kind of INDEX-thread with all the interesting topics over the years.
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miquelonbrad
Posted 2013-11-17 2:17 PM (#411215 - in reply to #103611)
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Posted 2013-11-17 8:24 PM (#411284 - in reply to #411215)
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miquelonbrad - 2013-11-18 6:17 AM

It's good to "bump" some of the old threads up once in a while, so I can see em! :)




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Yep, others have bumped up old threads before that I never knew existed because they just got buried over time. I've found these old bumped up threads very interesting and helpful, thought it might help not just me, but others as well by bringing this one up again.

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ttotired
Posted 2014-10-17 12:34 PM (#459530 - in reply to #103611)
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Location: Perth Australia		And for the exact same reason, it gets another go around

Taking Wizards advice, I just bit the bullet and bought a walking foot sewing machine

I now have to think of something to make as a practice before trying to do my own motor trimming

Thanks gents for a very interesting topic

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