Month: October 2024

My buddy that does upholstery completed my seat in 4 days! We had originally talked about doing the seat in old school diamond stitching and it came out beautiful. He did double stitching to give it more of the custom look.

I went with the lighter color to give it contrast. So many custom seats fall into the “darker” colors. I have a custom solo Corbin seat that very nice and wrapped in black leather. I can easily switch out with a couple bolts if I want to change it up.

I’ve been wanting to change up the color of my seat on the FatBoy. I thought about going his contrast with a very light material but couldn’t make the decision at the fabric shop. I ended buying two choice colors.

The fabric shop is called Morgans Fabrics and they have been at the same spot for as far as I can remember.

I spoke with my buddy who is the upholster and he mentioned that the seat would have to have line stitches or some type of diamond stitching done so there would be no wrinkles. The seat currently has wrinkles because whoever did the seat before probably didn’t know how to cut and sew.

For reference 1 square yard of marine grade material cost approximately $18.50. That is enough material to probably do two seats.