seat covering.

[A Yerbury]

well I could get some person or other to do it, but hey? why not I thought? how tricky can it be...I take it the vinyl is glued to the foam before stapling? what is the most appropriate glue to use? and should the foam be patchy what type of foam do I need? those are probably enough questions to be getting on with, thanks and garlands in advance.
ta.
Alex.

[Pedro]

I thought about doing mine too Yerbs but for £50-60 quid you can get it done professionally. Let me know if you want a contact to do it.

Ped

[JMo]

All you need is some stretchy lycra and some gaffa tape...

Grrrrrrrrr...

xxx

[marchesini]

well I could get some person or other to do it, but hey? why not I thought? how tricky can it be...I take it the vinyl is glued to the foam before stapling? what is the most appropriate glue to use? and should the foam be patchy what type of foam do I need? those are probably enough questions to be getting on with, thanks and garlands in advance.
ta.
Alex.

If you want a pukka job geeza, then the monster seat is quite a hard one to do methinks. If it was a 996 sports type pad thing, then I'd say yah, goferit but the monster seat - tricky.

My guess is you would have to do some cutting and sewing on it in order to follow the shape of the seat correctly so unless you passed GCSE dressmaking (not improbable, granted) , i reckon that it would be difficult to make it look professional. As Pedro says, for £50 you could get an alcantara grey or black or grey/black combo (with large fries) and it would look spiffing.

Laters matron

simon

[A Yerbury]

gaffa tape and lycra? if only t'were that simple....I had mentally done this job and in the world of my head it all went like greased up backstroke "yeah, I'll just staple and glue the bejesus out of it.." took the vinyl off last night and it looks like needlepoint may be in order. Luckily I have a very dear aunt who is a bit of a seamstress, it's all about the French stitch apparently (bien sur etc)

yours touching cloth and love to you both.

yerbury.

[JMo]

I'd agree with Simon, that unless the material you choose has a fair degree of stretch in it, then yes, you will need to shape/stitch it to get it to sit properly...

SazzaJ had her seat sculpted and recovered in a black alcantera type stuff by Bumwraps (they are in Bognor I believe) and while the fit and finish is very good, they did put a seam right across the middle which I thought was a bit clumsy...

xxx

[A Yerbury]

I'd agree with Simon, that unless the material you choose has a fair degree of stretch in it, then yes, you will need to shape/stitch it to get it to sit properly...

SazzaJ had her seat sculpted and recovered in a black alcantera type stuff by Bumwraps (they are in Bognor I believe) and while the fit and finish is very good, they did put a seam right across the middle which I thought was a bit clumsy...

xxx

yes it will be done shaped/stitched, it is a medium tick vinyl that has a very convincing grain, I did see some thinner ones with a good lycra content but my ex used a similar on one of her bikes and it needed to be tougher..she had strong upper thigh strength etc...as regards a seam up the middle? I would go back and shoot the manager. I say no to that.

always a pleasure.
xxx

[DesmoDog]

A couple of threads on here dedicated to the benefits of alcantra (pseud-suede?). I was thinking of getting one of our local handymen to do it in leather, but as he works almost exclusivley with Harleys you can imagine the sort of thing he excels in - great if you're going to park up in a 1950's bar, but that's about it.

Alex, if you take off the vinyl can you be arsed to make a cutting template of the cover?

Does anyone know of a decent upholsterer oop North? Failing that, Peds could you send me your contact please?