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First and for most your seat looks great. Secondly I'm super jealous of your sewing skills. Last but not least confused by what you mean here, "So for the side to back panel seam, I make mine straight. I keep the relationship of the side panels oriented 90 degrees to the top panel." I think...

I'm planning to use rivets to permanently hold the cover on. In the pictures I basically have the seat cover stretched over the pan and foam. I think I will to do as you suggest and add some more foam over the padding that I currently have in order to fill out the vinyl a little more before...

Yeah absolutely some good advise on the upholstery. I did some more work on the seat yesterday. I'm not happy with the results but its good enough for now. I have enough material to do another cover and I may either do try again or I may have a shop do it for me. I've been working on the...

I used that exact video to figure out how to do the top pleated section. And I ordered all of my material from Sailrite which made the video. I could just make the border all the way around and follow the video exactly but I'm stumped when trying to make the downward curved section.

Those seats look great. I think I understand what you mean by doing it at right angles. I think you mean to do it like in Figure A below correct? Then I would just start sewing at the center and work my way out to the left and then right side pulling the fabric flat as I sew.

One of the last things that I need to do in order to finish up my bike is to make a seat cover. I've made the seat pan out of 16ga. steel. Foamed is with a couple of different materials and ordered vinyl and started trying to make the cover. One disclaimer is that I've only sewn a couple of...

I'm in for a dohc CB750 as well. I think I read that you need to add a 1/2" spacer in the middle. This is perfectly fine with me. If I understood correctly it would be $45 shipped right? Paypal money to jbrady2@gmail.com with the details of what I want?