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Originally Posted by CurtEgerer
I'm interested to learn how you recovered the saddle, specifically how the leather is attached underneath. Is it simply glued top and bottom? What kind of glue? Looks like it came out nice.
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Thanks- this was a good case of "do as I say, not as I do"
It was a learning process. What I did wrong- use too thick of leather pieces. I was using 2mm thick pieces (approx 5 ounce weight when ordering) - too thick. What I should have used was 1mm thick leather- approximately 2.5 ounce weight leather. I would probably buy some 2 oz. and a 3oz. swatches to see what works best if 2.5 cannot be found.
Because the leather was so thick, I made a mold to compress the top against the seat. The first seat I recovered, I clamped around the edges, which worked, but you can still see the clamp marks. The mold avoids that, but I bet with 1mm thick leather, one wouldn't even need the mold, just stretch and adhere. Once dry, I went back and wrapped the leather around the edges, using exacto knife to cut out excess and adhered underneath.
Adhesive- water proof gorilla glue did not hold up in wet conditions. I went to loctite vinyl/leather/plastic and fabric, which had so far held up. I would research a 3m adhesive (leather to plastic) if I did it again. The first seat I recovered, I stripped the entire old cover/padding off. It was leather to plastic. The second seat, I just recovered over the old leather- leather to leather.
Now that I've done it , I will probably never buy a new seat again. The closest sella leather seat I can find is about $130-$160, and I can recover it much cheaper and get a better leather match to what I want.
Again- the key is a thinner leather. The original sella italia slr leather is about 1mm thick.
first seat- leather to plastic base. Looks way better in person. This pic looks like a big schlong.
