First attempt at recovering a seat from scratch.

[johnnymac]

Hello- I love this site! Here is my first attempt at recovering my seat for my 1975 xs650b. I got some marine vinyl from the fabric store- cut up my old cover and used it as a template- Had my lovely wife sew it up (i'm so glad I bought her a good sewing machine that could handle the thick material and upolstry thread) and 3 hours later- I'm a very happy man!

 

[alfredo]

looks like a quality job. nice going!

 

[pumps]

Looks like a pro job! Very good. Especially for a first try.

 

[smokenjoep01]

Looks great.

 

[johnnymac]

Thanks everyone- I even impressed myself a little this time- This is a little off topic but as I was redoing the seat I thought I would finally deal with the broken document holder- I had some super strong magnets around and I took off the plastic knob and the plastic holder that went into the seat pan. Then I simply stuck a magnet on both sides of the document holder tab- No glue or anything and it handles the xs vibrations perfectly.

 

[fancyketchup]

Amazing work!

 

[Teebs]

I can't believe that is your first shot! Excellent.

 

[JAGUARGOD]

Excellent....beauty job!


BTW...Teebs , you crack me up.....

 

[johnnymac]

Thanks for all the great comments- I would suggest everyone give it a try- Total cost was about $10.00 and I was sure it was going to turn out like crap. It really helped that my wife is great on a sewing machine. This job seemed easy but I think if I wanted to modify the shape or design of the seat, it would have been 100 times harder. Thanks again for the comments- Just a note- the marine vinyl is great because the underside has a durible mesh that really holds well on the diamond shaped tabs on the pan.

 

[Teebs]

A big thumbs up to your wife too, then. She definitely deserves it. Ten bucks, that's awesome!

Thanks, JAGUARGOD! Never take me too seriously! I certainly don't...

 

[xstom]

Wow that came nice! Looks like you added a margin around the basic cut outs for your pattern?

 

[danno]

I'll give you $40 and pay shipping both ways if you want to do another one. That seat looks great!

 

[johnnymac]

Yeah- xstom- I needed about 1/2 in. border where all the pieces attached together so that they could be sewn together (turn a pair of jeans inside out and look at the seam down the leg- This makes a nice looking, durable seam.) I left about 1 in. on the bottom pieces because they needed to be folded once for extra strength.

 

[johnnymac]

Hey Danno- thanks for liking the seat, but I was lucky just getting this one done- It was hard on the wifes machine and I kind of persuaded her to push past some pretty knarly sounds coming from the old singer. I talked to the local upolstry guy here in town- Sonoma, Ca. and he had said he wouldn't have charged me very much to do it if mine didn't turn out very well.