I appreciated every bit of this video. It's one of the best leather sewing vids I've seen. He shows and tells about the problems you will have along the way. No hiding anything. It's honest & real.
In the early '90s a friends pit bull ate a chunk of my Yamaha TT-500's seat. I knew nothing of leather craft or apolstery. The apolstery shop in town quoted $400 for a new seat. 😂 I purchased some vinyl from the fabric store and got some carpet thread from my dad. Repaired the foam with carpet pad and spray glue. The new civer came out better than the factory one. 👍 This was an awesome video and brought back memories. I never heard of you until I saw the belt video with Chuck Dorsett. Thank you for sharing and I look forward to seeing more of your projects. 👍😁
OLD Leather Smith here, it's been awhile Jimmy, Great video. A suggestion I use a thumb tack puller that I sharpened that works great and doesn't nick or cut the leather, only the threads. Barge is a contact cement. I use weld wood with all I use it's more reasonable. I still hand stitch everything. Still a great video. GOD'S BLESSINGS ✝️🥎🙃
very cool how you went about recovering the seat ,but if i can as,your stabler ,is it a special stapler ? i mean designed for upholstery ? or is it what one would find at the home depot ? and the short its stables i can find are 1/4 '' i cant find shorter ones .as i recover bicycle seats.
@@WeaverLeatherSupply and i take it your stable gun is just a regular stabler ,not industrial ?oh 1/4 stables are just to long for bicycle seats ,the plastic not thick enough.
You said you wanted to challenge yourself. How much better would that have been if you had saddle stitched it? Even a lock stitch machine gives a seam that will fall apart with one broken thread. If you had hand stitched it at 6tpi with a saddle stitch , it would last ten times as long and look ten times better. Agreed that it would take a couple of days to do but it would have been worth it. Rant over. I’ve been hand stitching leather for 30 years. I have a machine for the cheap stuff but for prestige it has to be hand stitched using a saddle stitch
Remember this trick sew inside the circle. If you sew inside the circle then you won't sew on to you extra fabric. Trim v notches where there is bunching and slits when the material needs to expand. With you sewing on each side of the seam you might wind up with later the main seam splits then you have to do a double blind slip stich repair. YUK! It would have been better to do a baseball hand stiched then.
I appreciated every bit of this video. It's one of the best leather sewing vids I've seen. He shows and tells about the problems you will have along the way. No hiding anything. It's honest & real.
Love this guy, not much he can't do. Would love to see more vids from Jimmy. Good stuff!
Welcome to the world of leathersmithing. Great job. Blessings to ya Ole Son. As ever just Tom
OMG 😮😱😦🥺😳😯AMAZING SKILL AND WORK !! GREAT VIDEO, THANK YOU FOR SHARING - HOPE TO SEE MORE LIKE THIS !!
Oh Jimmy ❤ to see your work. All the. best from 🇨🇭
Great Job on the seat Jimmy!!!!!!!
Nice work!! You did a wonderful job on that seat!! 👍
A glued and sawn reinforcing tape behind the seams would be appropriate
These kinds of jobs are more well suited to a post or cylinder arm machines but very good job working with what you have! Excellent craftsmanship
In the early '90s a friends pit bull ate a chunk of my Yamaha TT-500's seat. I knew nothing of leather craft or apolstery. The apolstery shop in town quoted $400 for a new seat. 😂 I purchased some vinyl from the fabric store and got some carpet thread from my dad. Repaired the foam with carpet pad and spray glue. The new civer came out better than the factory one. 👍
This was an awesome video and brought back memories. I never heard of you until I saw the belt video with Chuck Dorsett. Thank you for sharing and I look forward to seeing more of your projects. 👍😁
Love this video. Thanks for sharing. It's all a learning process. Nice job!
Beautiful! Nice work as always!
Excellent, thanks for sharing.
Sewing the top seam may work better (or easier for you) if you had a cylinder arm sewing machine.
Absolutely beautiful
A cylinder arm machine would really be better for a job like this. But, you use what you have!
Great video thx
looks nice
Some city...
OLD Leather Smith here, it's been awhile Jimmy, Great video. A suggestion I use a thumb tack puller that I sharpened that works great and doesn't nick or cut the leather, only the threads. Barge is a contact cement. I use weld wood with all I use it's more reasonable. I still hand stitch everything. Still a great video. GOD'S BLESSINGS ✝️🥎🙃
Now imagine doing this seam hand-sewing
I once made that triple stitch by hand...
very cool how you went about recovering the seat ,but if i can as,your stabler ,is it a special stapler ? i mean designed for upholstery ? or is it what one would find at the home depot ? and the short its stables i can find are 1/4 '' i cant find shorter ones .as i recover bicycle seats.
1/4” T-50 staples per Jimmy. Thanks!
@@WeaverLeatherSupply and i take it your stable gun is just a regular stabler ,not industrial ?oh 1/4 stables are just to long for bicycle seats ,the plastic not thick enough.
You said you wanted to challenge yourself. How much better would that have been if you had saddle stitched it? Even a lock stitch machine gives a seam that will fall apart with one broken thread. If you had hand stitched it at 6tpi with a saddle stitch , it would last ten times as long and look ten times better. Agreed that it would take a couple of days to do but it would have been worth it.
Rant over. I’ve been hand stitching leather for 30 years. I have a machine for the cheap stuff but for prestige it has to be hand stitched using a saddle stitch
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If you had cut some small "V" shapes out of all the turns it would have laid flat and not been lumpy. But good job for first try.
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Remember this trick sew inside the circle. If you sew inside the circle then you won't sew on to you extra fabric. Trim v notches where there is bunching and slits when the material needs to expand. With you sewing on each side of the seam you might wind up with later the main seam splits then you have to do a double blind slip stich repair. YUK! It would have been better to do a baseball hand stiched then.