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I'm searching for a local upholsterer to make a seat for my café build.
I reached out to someone on my local CL and they seemed like they had a pretty good handle on what I wanted, then they hit me with a cost of $350-400.
Is that price reasonable?
Here is the bike:
I'm just looking for a 1-1.5" base with some horizontal pleating, black marine vinyl.
I've seen a wide range of prices for seat covers. My local upholstery shop knocked one out in 20 minutes for $50. Then I had a guy who wanted to sponsor a seat cover to me. Due to lack of communication on his part the embroidery came out all wrong and I refused to mount it if he wouldn't correct it. He refused to fix it for free. I asked what it would cost me to just pay to have it done correctly and he told me the embroidery was $250 alone and the seat cover would have been $700. I told him he was fucking crazy. He told me to burn the seat or throw it in the trash. His employee who claimed he did most of the work took me aside and said he would redo it for $100. His cover got back to me incomplete and was a totally crap job, it got tossed also. I ended up finding another company to sponsor me and I took it upon myself to get the embroidery done correctly. The embroidery cost me, not $250, but a whole $7.00. Sent the material to the new place and they knocked out a nice item. I have no idea what he would have charged me. If they are just padding and covering a seat pan for that seat I think that price you have is pretty steep. Especially because you can buy all kinds of ready made seats for around $120.
Please consider one of our own.
Jeff (7aliveatlast7) is a great guy and does an amazing job. I gave him my seat pan and a picture of what I wanted. He did a great job and sent me pictures each step of the way. I will post a pic of final seat once I figure out how to post pics with my phone.
I would consider buying a seat pad off a DTT vendor, but the issue is, they are not going to fit my seat pan.
This CL350 frame was chopped off at the end of the backbone. I am running a CB360 tank and the frame rails have all been modified. I'm no longer dealing with a stock frame.
I'm going to keep searching for an upholsterer, but in the mean time, I may just put some closed cell foam or neoprene on the fiberglass pan.
What is preferred: neoprene rubber or closed cell foam? Can I layer either one?
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