Project 53 diamond tuck

Here my current half project. Lol. It's a rear seat for a 53 bel air. Diamond tuck

Bare bones. A lot easier to start this way





Doing the lay out. Damn this is time consuming



Finally all laid out time to sew




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Very cool. Excited to see how this turns out.

 

Diamond tuck or diamond pattern top sewn?

 

Looks like top sewn....no sewing in real diamond tuck
its all folded held in place with the buttons

 

Diamond pattern top sew


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Bottom part all diamond-up!! Now gotta lay out the back rest and stitch

 

Looks great!

 

Thank you!!

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Here's a step by step of laying them out

Step 1 cut material lol



Step 2 lay out the height of each diamond



Step 3 lay out the width of each diamond



Step 4 find the center of each diamond top to bottom that's for each side point




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Step 5 find the center point so you can find the points for top and bottom of each diamond



Step 6 no line up and draw lines to start forming the diamond



Step 7 finish drawing more lines to complete the diamonds. Now there are your diamonds!! Time to sew




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My Comet is done up the same way, I loves me some diamonds.

 

Good Luck...!

 

Thanks. That's bad ass is that your car or your work??


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VONRUBEN65, yes my GF and I recovered my stock ruined seats / trims etc in the diamonds last year. Our first interior, it's not perfect but looks good. The photos above were exactly how we did it.....having flashbacks to sewing huge panels of diamonds!

 

Here's what makes it all happen. Besides my foot and hands lol






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Getting ready for the back rest rebuild. This is the way I learned to do it others may have different ways though but here's mine

Frame



Put a piece across the top band to keep the gapping the same across the top



Cover all the springs next up



Now refoaming with a 1 inch thick piece








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All trimmed up now to get the sides all sewn on



This is gonna end up being the top band



This is it for the night kinda hard to get much done watching a 3 year old and 1.5 ye old lol.


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I'm planning diamonds for my Chrysler. Look forward to your updates.

 

All done. Now I need a new project.

It look crooked because it's just leaning against the garage








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Nicely done, bookmarked!

 

Thank u much!!! I should be starting. Motorcycle seat next week not sure if I should post it on here.


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