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Basically, it was necessary to rebuild, restore and reupholster the Ford car pick-up truck bench seat. The padding, foam base was deteriorated and has some portions in bad condition.
The ideal decision to have a perfect seat would have been to make a new foam base for the seat and both backrests. The customer did not want to and requested us to rebuild it.
Before fixing the padding it was necessary to check the condition of the zig-zag springs system. We had to replace with new ones some lines of springs.
It was also necessary to repair the seat runners to make the seats correctly slide back and forth again.
To the request of the customer the wrapping was done in automotive black vinyl with contrasting 138 size red thread for top stitches according to a picture he gave us.
For the foaming of the cover we used a bonded 9 mm foam. The diamonds measure 5 cm for the short diagonal and 8 cm for the longer one. The red stitches are 6 mm long.
As several tips included in the video one that stands out is the preparing of the piping: loose upper tension and longer 6 mm stitches when we sew down the vinyl strip to the plastic piping cord(2.5 mm thick)
Once the piping piece was ready it was attached to the required vinyl pieces. The same procedure, loose tension and longer stitches.
Next the last sewing consists in sewing the piece with the piping to the main panels. It is necessary to short stitches 3 to 4 mm long for this process. A tight tension just enough to get a tight sewing.
I hope you find this video useful and get some inspiration to perform your own upholstery projects!
Cesar
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00:00 Introduction
00:37 Patterning
01:38 Sewing: Main panel
03:33 Sewing: Upper panel
05:23 Backrest pieces
05:52 Sewing: French seams
07:13 Sewing: Piping
09:27 Basting procedure
10:08 Sewing: Attatching lateral side
11:08 Makeshift steel listing wire
13:44 Final: Custom seat ready