No work on the lv tonight, had to fire up the sewing factory again. Sorta got roped into a job
Some of you might remember about 2 months ago my upholstery project. Basiclly myself, the wife and her parents taking on our first attempt at upholstery. I thought it turned out pretty good, so good I thought I would bring in one of my bucket seats to work the next week to show all my co-workers. Needless to say they were all impressed (as was I) that they turned out that nice for a first try.
Now some of you might remember a pic or 3 last year of my frame up on a forklift while I beat dirt out of it prior to washing. In the back ground you might remember seeing some heavy equipment, ag related stuff, semi's, etc....Well Ace hardware is also Roseau Farm Service, a Case/IH - Ford/New Holland dealer. We also have a fairly large heavy equipment service dept. that works on everything from Tractors to Trac hoe's to bulldozers.
Anyway, on Wed. our service dept. had a Hesston Bi-directional tractor/loader in for service. The seat was pretty tore up and it was a fairly new unit. The owner said to have a new seat installed, but when he saw the price ($400) for a fairly cheezy tractor seat, he said to have it re-upholstered. So, the shop formen remembers seeing my custom bucket seats and asks me to take a look at this seat.........
We'll I'm always up for a challenge..... ;p Wife is gone this weekend so I'm on my own. Ordered the material and foam this week.....last night I cut new foam for the seats with an electric carving knife and tonight I made patterns from scratch and started sewing. The old fabric was this really cheap stuff that had no seams and just stretched around the foam, probably why it was so tore up for such a new unit.
Few pics of the welting I made and a couple of my covers starting to go on the seats. I probably will need the wife's help tomorrow night, because it's hard to pull and press on that new bead lock on the backside at the same time. But all in all, I thought for a solo free-hand job, not to bad.
I've got $81 in materials, I told my shop formen I probably could do it for around $200, should be worth it I would think?
Matt