Product Description
In this revised edition, learn to make and install complete interiors in your car, truck or van. The author teaches you how to sew like an expert, and avoid costly mistakes. Learn to recover and build bench bucket seats, make headliners and carpets, plus how to build boat seats from scratch. Materials are described with specific recommendations for vinyl, cloth, velvet, leather, Nimbus, panel board, etc. Indispensable for anyone interested in upholstery…. More >>
Automotive Upholstery Handbook
Tags: Automotive, Handbook, Upholstery
#1 by Joel W. Trew on February 7, 2010 - 9:39 pm
The book is a little too vanilla. That’s because it is so broadly based. Really good overall information, but just wasn’t what I was looking for. If you need to get up to speed on the general details of the work, it’s great.
From there you know which detailed book to search for.
Joel W Trew
Rating: 3 / 5
#2 by Daniel W. Hodkinson on February 7, 2010 - 9:57 pm
All I can say is, Thank You Don for doing a great job on this book. If you want to get started in this trade, this is the book to own. Thank You Don
Dan
Glass & Body Shop
Rating: 5 / 5
#3 by Brian Kelley on February 7, 2010 - 10:36 pm
This book might be good if you want to use a sewing machine to painstakingly create your own auto upholstery from scratch, but it never even mentions the plethera of available upholstery kits out there today. Most auto restorers use these kits because they are much easier, cheaper and a closer match to the originals. If you want to learn to sew this is your book, if you want to know more about replacing your classic muscle car’s interior without purchasing a sewing machine, this is a waste of your money.
Rating: 2 / 5
#4 by Charles P. Linkowich on February 8, 2010 - 12:14 am
As a classic car restorer, I had hoped this book would get me started on doing and saving money on my own upholstery work. Terribly disappointed. The book is 20 years out of date. Auto upholstery for a long time has been sold as pre-sewn and fitted, as well as molded carpet for the flooring; this book attempts to demonstrate making upholstery from scratch. The black and white pictures are absouletly awful – more black than white. The section on installing a covertible is so bad its funny.
Rating: 1 / 5
#5 by Daniel E. Hawkin on February 8, 2010 - 2:55 am
Thorough and comprehensive guide to the complex and intimidating task of planning, ordering, cutting, sewing, gluing and installing every aspect of upholstery and carpet in any vehicle to include making your own seats from scratch!
Photos clarify each step and the explanations are, for the most part, clear and easy to understand – even for a novice beginner. Highly recommended for anyone interested in repairing or restoring vehicles or, who is interested in the facinating art of vehicle restoration and repair.
Rating: 4 / 5