Here is one of my recent projects. Suede headliner in a 2006 BMW. For some reason the old glue on the sun visors was a disgusting mess! But I got em covered after a lot of clean up...
Sorry, don't know where the fabric came from, would most likely be from the uk,maybe the netherlands or germany.Its a tweed type fabric and expensive, quality seems good.
Seeing this type of material reminded me that there is a person on instagram that goes by gtifabric from Colorado I believe. He doesn’t post a lot or go into much detail but one pic is of a giant modern loom for weaving material and it’s making reproduction gti material. Maybe he’s gonna get into production. Idk?
Roll bar for a porsche, owner wanted black leather with blue stitch.Most complex bar I've done and only my third.Templated each joint in vinyl, only a single line stitch around perimeter of cover, initialy held in position with tied elastic and temporary stitchs.hand lacing cover took 6 hours, total job time 12 hours.
A new little process for me and something that worked out really really well so i thought i'd share. customer asked me to trim a pair of Lamborghini Diablo seat, had a look at the seats and they looked tired, baggy and used. When i removed the drivers base covers the original seat base bolsters foams where missing and a few sheets of foam in its place...this would explain the baggy cover and comfort problem! The customer expressed they need to look OEM and with the Diablo seat foams being hard to locate or NA a different angle was taken, so a call was made to a chap with a 3D scanner who scanned the inside passenger bolster foam which was in perfect condition which then can be mirrored for the oposite side and from there the foams where machined....Still a bit to learnt do but the foam shape are 100% perfect and fitted beautifully as the OEM foams did! super happy with the results and a avenue that will be explored!
I hear ya but to make the moulds for the bolster involves 2 moulds per bolster due to the complexity plus the time for the pour foam trail and era, the foams are so hard machining them was a very good option (cost wise).