- Mon Sep 19, 2022 2:28 am
#15606
First time upholstery project for me.
1961 Buick Lesabre
It's my daily driver and the seats finally started ripping...door cards were all bend and ruined.
I have already redone the dashed, rear parcel shelf and front and rear door cards. I did have to sew a corner (round flowing) on the rear cards. It's not perfect. 2nd one was better than the first.
But now I am onto the seats.
I do want to add bolsters, but these old seats are shaped by the springs, so they may be small bolsters. And I know I will need to sew...a lot...so that will be fun to learn. But I cannot find any listing wire. What is on the seats is 2.8mm paper wrapped. All I can find is 16 Gaige (1.6mm) paper wrapped. I assume I really need the 2.8mm? Also I am using marine vinyl for the material ... do a sew in a canvas channel for the listing wire or can I just wrap it around the vinyl? Thanks in advance.
Here is what I am starting with
Here's an example of what I would really like to do, but maybe slightly lower bolsters
Old door cards
New dash and door cards
1961 Buick Lesabre
It's my daily driver and the seats finally started ripping...door cards were all bend and ruined.
I have already redone the dashed, rear parcel shelf and front and rear door cards. I did have to sew a corner (round flowing) on the rear cards. It's not perfect. 2nd one was better than the first.
But now I am onto the seats.
I do want to add bolsters, but these old seats are shaped by the springs, so they may be small bolsters. And I know I will need to sew...a lot...so that will be fun to learn. But I cannot find any listing wire. What is on the seats is 2.8mm paper wrapped. All I can find is 16 Gaige (1.6mm) paper wrapped. I assume I really need the 2.8mm? Also I am using marine vinyl for the material ... do a sew in a canvas channel for the listing wire or can I just wrap it around the vinyl? Thanks in advance.
Here is what I am starting with
Here's an example of what I would really like to do, but maybe slightly lower bolsters
Old door cards
New dash and door cards