Custom Seat Upholstery

[tparker]

I am currently learning to recover a motorcycle seat. I am watching a ton of videos of peopl knocking them out pretty quickly. They make it look easy, but it isn't. I'm having a heck of a time sewing anything that is remotely straight enough to be part of my seat.

Anyways, I have seen several posts about seats from Legendary or where ever. Those seats are not cheap. I was curious if anyone has had someone create custom seats done and if it was cost effective? It might not be easy to get perfect recreations, but it seems you could gete close.

[pschlosser]

I am currently learning to recover a motorcycle seat. I am watching a ton of videos of peopl knocking them out pretty quickly. They make it look easy, but it isn't. I'm having a heck of a time sewing anything that is remotely straight enough to be part of my seat.

Anyways, I have seen several posts about seats from Legendary or where ever. Those seats are not cheap. I was curious if anyone has had someone create custom seats done and if it was cost effective? It might not be easy to get perfect recreations, but it seems you could gete close.

if you have the fabric material and a machine that can sew it, I'd say knock yourself out, go for it.  but pulling those together, for some, will cost more than just buying one set of covers from Legendary.  What is nice about the Legendary covers, is they look as if they are OEM, and for many, that makes them worth the cost.  But any upholstery shop can fabricate covers that may look good, but just nay not look factory.  If you're happy with a look such as that, give it go.  I vote make a pattern and share it with the community for others who may want to roll their own.

[tparker]

oh, that is beyond my skills. I picked up a set from legendary years ago. I was just curious if others had someone make their seats. Agreed the OEM look would probably be a bit difficult unless you had the originals in decent enough shape to make patterns after. I am also curious if it is cost effective.

[R/T's 4 R/P]

I do upholstery and would say Legendary is very cost effective.  Depending on what you want that's custom, just the labor to create/recreate patterns can be pricey.
I'm sure there are some shops that can slap something together rather cheaply...and some people are ok with that.
Good material is another factor.
I've sent my own leather to Legendary and they used that in a set of covers and that worked out really well.
Just my 2 cents...

[pschlosser]

Back in the 1980s, Southern California, we were driving our cars to Tijuana on a day trip to upholstery shops to bust out the front and back seats in one day, while we waited.... at the cantina down the street drinking 25-cent coronas.  I did this once.. good times.  vague memories.

[70_440-6Cuda]

I have a friend with a custom upholstery shop, I can't imagine making patterns and doing the work could be cheaper than my PG set I got at a discount, and I think the quality is very good

I may be selling the PG set, 1970 'Cuda, black front and rears, brand new, as I found out after my car was optioned with leather

[Lunchbox]

I just had my legendary covers installed, front buckets and rear seat was $850.

Add the cost of the covers, foam, misc item, the seats get spendy fast.

[torredcuda]

I had my Neon SRT seats redone in white vinyl by a local shop, since he couldn`t match the factory patterns exactly I had them redo the back seat as well. It cost me $1200 which I thought was pretty good and most people I`ve talked to said it was cheap.