Has anyone re-covered a Corbin seat? I've mostly convinced myself to make a new cover for my tired corbin seat out of full grain aniline leather. I figured I can rip the seams on the existing cover and use the pieces to make a pattern for a new one. I'm a fairly proficient stitcher, and I should be able to get the materials needed for around $50: a big difference from the $400+ Corbin wants to do the same work. Any thoughts?
Cheers
Greg
89 FJ1200
My Gunfighter and Lady is currently at the Upholstery shop. The stitching in the Leather had started to come undone. Also, I am having it covered in all vinyl. The Leather was too damn hard. I will post photos and price I paid after I pick it up.
Fred
The top front edge finally cut through the front panel on mine a couple of years ago.
A friend of mine who has an upholstery shop was able replace just that piece, which now looks better than new.
He said it was pretty easy.
I have a Corbin Gunfighter seat, dont like the faux tooled leather look. Love the comfort vs stock. I was going to re-cover it, bought a sq. yard of material, staple gun, etc and found out that the staples wouldn't even come close to penetrating the fiberglass seat pan. Maybe a compressed air stapler would work....Corbin used rivets to hold the material in place.The stock seat was easy to re-upholster... Used a hair dryer to heat and stretch the vinyl, looks great.