1950's Chair Reupholstery - Part 1

this chair came into my shop a couple weeks ago and looked it over and so I'll get out my tools and tear it down see what's inside we just got to love our kitties pets are good for business there's an absolutely ridiculous amount of staple shot in this chair we've got them side by side all along the cording Plus clustered up in the cardboard strip there after layer this horrible saturation the staples continues this is just really crazy it took three hours to pull the staples out of this fabric I'll work with this padding and try to keep it intact as I pull it out well it doesn't appear that the seat was originally button so I'm just going to completely rebuild it all right I'll take this into the other shop and refinish the legs I'll dub this on and set it aside and let it work for about 15 minutes and wash it away [Music] I'll use a nylon brush to clean these carvings I'll scrub this down with lacquer thinner and clean away in here the remaining stripper all right that's ready for an Linder aye captain czuv solvents evaporated and the wood was dried out nicely I used a red scotch brite pad and buffed this all down polished up the surface I'll use a water soluble brown mahogany annalen dye to bring out this color I don't like to subject my camera to varnish overspray so I didn't film the finishing process I've sprayed two coats of polyurethane on the legs according to instructions on the can and I'm ready to move ahead Holly the spring work still looks good in this chair somebody's added this rope it's not hurting anything so I'll go ahead and cover it up with the cyclists webbing I'm going to use just a few temporary staples hold this deck pad in place while I fit it to the frame and leaving just a slight overhang on these edges I'll wrap this deck pad up in two layers of cotton I'll have to trim away some excess in the corners this slippies helps hold things in place much better I'll put some cotton into the shallow area right here along this arm support all right that evened up pretty nicely all right that's going to pull down great a very first step and laying out fabric is squaring up the cat I'll line up my centers and put a few temporary shots into your straight line across the back I'll match up centers on the front and push this padding back in and towards the frame and I'll snug this down these will be temporary shots for a while also with fabric snug front to back you need to make these cuts here I've got it squared up with that arm rail and I need to stop considerably short because these have to go down into the crevasse let's cut them a little bit we can always go more check it with the tucking tool I'll snug this down and fill in the shallow spots with cotton work my way around to the back with the back all pulled in place I'll start readjusting this front profile Oh tighten up the shallow area right here and work my way to the front I need to tear back the slippies a little bit and remove some cotton I knew there'd be a little access right here on this corner I'll work with it pull this all down evenly I'll finish off this corner by finding an equal balance of fabric on this corner pull it down tight then work with these until I get them even good to keep a regulator at hand okay not bad I need to measure out for this Bend that goes around the front looks like 54 inches better go six and I'll have to allow for this taper going downward they need to be conservative with this fabric and last cut cording wastes a lot of material so I'm going to start by cutting two pieces because this fabric is directional I need to mark the ends and make sure that I'd match them up properly I went ahead and made in some 3/4 inch wide strips for my outside trim I'll lay out my six inch strip then measure out my allowance for the taper along the side working off center I'll measure out for my corner placement then lay out the 1-inch fall along the side so match up the opposite ends and sew these together on a bias I got my machine set at a small stitch [Music] now reset my machine to a large stitch size - so the cording [Music] we use the regulator along this front edge and push some of this stuffing up that's sagged a little too much over the edge trying to keep this nice and rounded though I'll match up my corner references and staple this band across the front I opened up the sewing so that I can trim away this excess cord eliminate the bump right here at this intersection I'll drop on a strip of slippies before I put the cotton down allows that to pull over a lot more smooth put that cotton right along the cardboard strip all right this is ready to pull down I'll use my regulator to work the cotton up into the corner push it down against the cardboard strap okay that'll go down nice I'll use a regulator and drag it across this slippies and keep the cotton in place I've never been a fan of double well for trimming out exposed wood so I don't have any on hand so I'm gonna make my own flat trim I'll start with this scrap a bias cut fabric and I'll lay out one inch plus an additional 3/8 I'll spray this with the coat of a g7 set aside a minute or so to cure after this sets up a little bit I'll fold this back along the 1-inch line I'll turn this around and bring the threads inside over stopping just short of the other side that's gonna pull out pretty nicely all right that's a wrap on this seat time to move on with the back

Channel: Buckminster Upholstery

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Keywords: upholstery, restoration, traditional upholstery, buckminster upholstery, chair upholstery, falls city, nebraska, refinishing, kim buckminster, side chair, reupholstery, refinishing legs

Id: alf_UMUu9lY

Length: 20min 25sec (1225 seconds)

Published: Thu Nov 28 2019