Re: leather upholstery

[tony martie <tony@domain.elided>]

Paul,
I am not an upholsterer but have you considered adding to the seat 
instead of trying to reshape the leather?  Maybe add some batting 
material to the offending wrinkly spots.
Just a thought.

Tony Martie
TM PhotoDesign
www.tmpd.net
phone  469 233-8673
fax        214 328-0882
78 Spider

I've finally gotten around to doing the upholstery on the Project Alfa
Spider seats. I've got a real nice leather kit that I purchased from 
World
Upholstery about 2 or 3 years ago that has been waiting patiently in the
shipping box all this time. I finished one headrest that came out good 
and
I'm working on the first seatback. After about two days of grunting and
stretching and pulling it looks great except for some wrinkles in the 
smooth
section at the upper corners of the pleated insert (original design). As
much as I've tried I can't find any way of getting these wrinkles out 
other
that some method of shrinking the leather to fit the form. I have no 
prior
experience with upholstery or leather work so I'm not sure of how to do 
this
or if it can be done. I've been thinking of wetting the leather and 
letting
it dry in the sun.
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