4drgl

Very Nice!

I'm coming out to visit you, and your upholsterer when I'm ready to reupholster both of my cars!

Looks good!

Jerry Feather

I'm sure Doug will be happy to meet with you about your cars. He does primarily classic, custom and hotrods, and restoratioins. His work is often in the magazines such as Hot VWs since he does a lot for KCW, a well known VW and Porsche restorer here in Grand Junction. My 928s are the only ones he has worked on to this point, but I expect he will be doing several of them for me and with me as time goes on, and probably one or both of my airplanes. Doug in in his 40s and has been doing this work since he was a teenager. He is a real artisan, and he too is FBA Certified.

Jerry Feather

Aloysius

Wow.

Tom in Austin

Great pics and fun to follow, thanks Jerry. Someday I'm going to have to stop in to Grand J. to see all of your many inspirations in person!

Jerry Feather

Tom, it would be great to have you here to look over my mess. Just ask Herman. About the mess that is. It was great to have him and Barbara here also. I think the same applies to many of the guys and gals on this forum.

In the meantime, I am really looking foreward to OCIC next month. I'll bring some of my stuff there as well; including my GTS4 and with the new seats, I hope, and some fitting Rear Wheel Well Liners.

Jerry Feather

nc_growler

Many folks here waiting anxiously to see a 928 roll past with a set of these installed...

Hoping it happens!

DJF1

+928

White Lightnin'

Impressive work... the dedication too, is worthy of mention!

Ducman82

the seats are going to look amazing

whiteNSXs

smoking awesome!!!!!
Steve

dcrasta

Wow, that is going to look better than factory (IMHO).

Great work as always Jerry!
:Cheers: Happy Sunday!

Jerry Feather

Doug called this morning and wanted to put some time in on the seats, so I dropped what I was doing on the Liners and went and spent a few hours with him. He had sewn up the second seat bottom cushion section, so I trimmed some of the inside seams so they won't look bad in the corners and then I finished up cutting out the cushion sections for the seat back inserts. While I was doing that Doug worked on some pockets for the back of the seat backs, down low, kind of like map pockets, and then he devised a pair of little pockets, one each seat, for the seat bottoms down just below the front seam.

These pictures show the material that I have cut out for the cushions for the backs, and then I have placed one of the bottom cushion section into the seat bottom to show, very roughly, how it is going to look. The sections are not stuffed with foam yet, of course. I think these are going to look really cool with the extra cushion that I have designed in.

Then here are the two little front pocket Doug made. The last picture shows the welt cord core material that we decided on. I have always been fond of very small welting, so we selected Doug's smallest for this project. I think it is about 3/32 inch in diameter.

You can see also that Doug has sewn the seat bottom side/front panels together and sewn the welting to these.

Jerry Feather

Here are some more pictures of this progress.

Here are the back side map pockets sewn to the seat back backs. Then Doug is sewing the seat back fronts together at the upper area connecting the embroidered top pieces to the side pieces.

The last picture shows Doug frenching the two upper seams for each seat back front panels.

Jerry Feather

These pictures show more of the little bit of french seaming we are using on these seats; and then Doug is laying out the panels for the sides of the seat backs which he is going to sew to the back backs.

He is also top stitching the seam between the seat backs and the seat back side panels.

The last of these pictures actually shows quite a bit, in a way. Doug uses a very interesting kind of scrim from his projects. It has a nice fabric for the scrim side and is backed with a couple layers of additional material of some kind and then is built of with two seperate layers of light quarter inch foam. One nice thing about it is that you can pull the layers of foam off one at a time and reduce the thickness where you want.

Here, I am using that scrim to cover the big blank area of the seat backs that is usually just left with the finish layer of material floating across it, now so that it will have a little better substance. I have seperated part of one of the foam layers from it and trimmed it off so that the original foam of the seats can by glues over it and blend in with the scrim.

Jerry Feather

Here, in the first third and fourth picture Doug has the seat back backs sewn together, top stiched , and he is sewing on the black welting.

The second picture shows my handy work with the scrimn on the back of the seat backs where I have trimmed the one layer of foam off the scrim and then overlapped the original foam on top of it and glued it all down.

The last pictures shows one of the seat backs that I have now covered with a thin layer of dacron in final preperation for the final covering with the leather when Doug gets the front and back of the back covers sewn together.

This is where Doug called for a late lunch break and I decided I needed to get back to the Liners.

Jerry Feather