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Thanks for a great forum guys. I just read through 216 pages of very helpful info in the last few days.
I'm mostly self taught. I did help an upholstery guy back when I was a teen and learned the very very basics of simple jobs. Enough that I was pretty good at doing car panels, headliners, and speaker boxes. I never got into it deep enough to be taught the correct way to do seats or major complex projects. After that I've pretty much only done atv seats for myself or close family and a few interior panels. A few years back I finally decided I wanted to learn how to do more and got a seat to teach myself. Got some cheap fabric and went at it. A few failures and much learning I got a final product I was happy with so I done my truck seats. They actually came out pretty good and had a number of people want to hire me after seeing them. At that time I still refused to do work for others, I was still a 9-5 licensed electrician. Now I'm unable due to disabilities to do electrical work so I've toyed with the idea of doing some small upholstery jobs here and there to help myself along. Not so much as I'm hurt for cash as just something to do.
I've already learned a number of tricks from reading and just wanted to say thanks.
DJ
I'm mostly self taught. I did help an upholstery guy back when I was a teen and learned the very very basics of simple jobs. Enough that I was pretty good at doing car panels, headliners, and speaker boxes. I never got into it deep enough to be taught the correct way to do seats or major complex projects. After that I've pretty much only done atv seats for myself or close family and a few interior panels. A few years back I finally decided I wanted to learn how to do more and got a seat to teach myself. Got some cheap fabric and went at it. A few failures and much learning I got a final product I was happy with so I done my truck seats. They actually came out pretty good and had a number of people want to hire me after seeing them. At that time I still refused to do work for others, I was still a 9-5 licensed electrician. Now I'm unable due to disabilities to do electrical work so I've toyed with the idea of doing some small upholstery jobs here and there to help myself along. Not so much as I'm hurt for cash as just something to do.
I've already learned a number of tricks from reading and just wanted to say thanks.
DJ