Sewing canvas

[Keith Webb]

Hi Mike

This is a topic I have some interest in as I need to do 3 sets of front seats as well as some rear seats for the FGT, as well as the side curtains, sunshine roof cover and bags. I have good patterns for all of these but lack the skills and a machine.

From what I gather the machine needed is going to cost more than $1,000 but I could be wrong.

I have several of the tent bags from Tooles in Wodonga which have the correct vintage canvas. Surviving bits of canvas you find on trucks are a pale colour which is a bleached version of the originals which were a sort of khaki green.

Oh well... yet another skill to learn. Perhaps we should share a machine around - the seats I've seen made by motor trimmers are usually made from thin modern synthetic canvas with foam inserts - an expedient rather than correct.

I wonder how you can make the sprung wire seat bases. I have a sample.