Hey, all.
I never received any email notifications about all these replies ... I'll have to check my preferences ... sorry for the delay in replying.
The seats are done and I'm real happy with the results! I'd never want to do it again though -- man! This was HARD work!!!
Here's a picture of the before and after:
http://alanhorvath.com/54chevy/chevypics/seats_az.jpgHere's a picture of both finished seats:
http://alanhorvath.com/54chevy/chevypics/seats6_3.jpgAnd here's the whole photo-tutorial, start to finish:
http://alanhorvath.com/54chevy/new_seats.phpMan ... I am *sold* on buffalo hides! The grain patterns surpass absolutely every other kind of hide on the planet!
After doing these seats, I'm finally working with my Tacsew sewing machine with confidence. At first, I was sewing with the electricity on the machine turned off and just turning the wheel by hand, to be sure I wouldn't sew a crooked line ... but after sewing a few panels together, my confidence (and ability) rose to a better level and I started sewing with the foot pedal.
Not bad for a first timer -- I made *no* mistakes!
And now (halleluyah!) the toughest part of doing my interior is behind me. Everything else will be a piece of cake after this. I bought 4 full buffalo hides in Dark Chocolate and 2 full hides in Cream. The seats took about 90% of 2 full hides (1 hide per seat got me the same grain patterns to create "matching" seats) ... I'm going to do the headliner and behind the seats (around the rear window) in cream, with a Chocolate Brown overhead console and the door panels will be both colors, too.
I should be getting the truck back from paint this Spring and then I'll be doing black carpet, putting the seats in and working on the interior into the Summer. This has got me psyched!!!
Alan
