Since I'm a furniture maker I couldn't resist building my own seats. (That and the cost of buying them.)
A friend and fellow wood worker owns this vacuum bag press. I built these forms and pressed four layers of 1/8" bender board in the press to make the seat backs and bottoms. I'll have then upholstered with leather, that I have on hand, later.
I'm doing this a bit out of order because my friend is moving to New York soon and I'll lose the use of the press.
Here are the parts trimmed and laying on the forms
The parts on a wooden test frame I built.
(The spots are dust floating in the air in my shop, sorry.)
This is the steel frames I welded after checking the wooden test frames for comfort.
A couple shots in the car. Should look similar to MG buckets when finished. That's what I'm after, simple sports car bucket seats.
Here I am mixing the two part glue. It's about 10 degrees outside and I'm still not warm, that's why the coat indoors.
