Anybody know of any good affordable upholstery shops in the area? I'm getting sick of my local shops twlling me they can't give me a quote and need to charge by the hour. Typical restorer BS.
Good Upholstery Shops?
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Badger Coachworks on the Cape, yes, very spendy.
Try Seamless Customs in Leicester. He is not cheap either. Quality never is.
There's a guy in Bellingham MA who is great and very reasonable. He fixed rips and remade the bottom edges for my old BJ42 zebra bucket seats and charged me $100. I'll have to check the name. Its a small shop out of a garage studio next to his house
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This guy is very good.
http://bemisupholstery.com
http://bemisupholstery.com
Thats the guy!
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John, thanks for the tip on this guy. He seems like a really good dude and is way better to work with than anybody else I've talked to so far. And the best part...you'll never believe this...he actually listened to what I had in mind! We then had a great conversation about different ways of accomplishing what I wanted! Holy crap!
His rates also seem very reasonable and the work I saw looked quite nice. He's booked up for another month or so but it should be worth the wait.
Thanks!
He's great. Doesnt even have a computer or email etc. old school.
do you think this guy would be interested in installing new covers?
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I'm sure he would do it...after he does my stuff!
They're really not difficult to install. I did a set in my 1981 40 and my FZJ80 and they came out great. It just takes time and patience.
They're really not difficult to install. I did a set in my 1981 40 and my FZJ80 and they came out great. It just takes time and patience.
He does full custom interiors on old cars so I think anything we throw at him would be easy. I know someone who he made grey seat covers from scratch to match the originals. He's good.
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He'll be making duplicates of my covers for my 1962 FJ40 and 1960 FJ25 (same covers, but different colors). He was doing a complete interior of a 1970 W-30 442 while I was there. His work looked good.
I hope so because I just dropped a seat off there and I drove about 2.5 hours one way to do it based of this thread.
Tried to go to Johns guy but he is currently backed up for the next month or two.
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You might be better off. He's affordable but you get what you pay for. He's had my stuff since October and he still can't get it right. I asked him to make copies of my originals (and I gave him my frames to work from) and let's just say he got a little creative with them.
Plus, he scratched up my seat frames pretty good.
Plus, he scratched up my seat frames pretty good.
Thats a bummer. I used him for simple repairs and it went well
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haha. Bob's quality wasn't the issue. It's his ability to listen and follow directions. The work he did would have been great if it was what I asked for.