Saddle Interiors
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The Green Grundel
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Saddle Interiors
So after seeing pics of the VIP GS with saddle interior its for sure going to be added to my list of mods. However, when I tried to search online for more information it was hard to find anything relevant.
Has anyone here installed a saddle interior in their car? Do I buy the leather at a specialty store then have my interior guy cut it to the pattern of the seats and doors and install it? Does anyone know what the process is called of embossing a design or text into the leather.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!
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Has anyone here installed a saddle interior in their car? Do I buy the leather at a specialty store then have my interior guy cut it to the pattern of the seats and doors and install it? Does anyone know what the process is called of embossing a design or text into the leather.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!
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I can vouch for that. I just saw a 2nd gen GS300 with the saddle leather interior.. It kinda freaked me out. 
I thought It looked pretty good. But there cant be too many versions of that car out there.
I thought It looked pretty good. But there cant be too many versions of that car out there.
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It would be interesting to see what a good saddle shop could do with a bit of hand tooling to reproduce the desired design in a single panel. That panel would probably have to be thicker than most of the seating surface to take deep tooling, but it could be sewn high into the center of the backrest, or on the headrest where it wouldn't poke you. That would be a good question for a fine leatherworker - and a challenge for the serious amateur.
It looks like most of these designs are embroidered. You might check your local yellow pages for a shop that does shirts and hats. Many are franchise operations that use a computer to drive an automated embroidery machine - much like a NC mill. Many can simply follow a scanned image or original art. Then have that panel sewn into the others that make up the seat back.
Just as there are many colors available today for saddles, you might shop around a bit before you select the "Basketball Orange" (Castano Brown). While it does resemble a traditional finely oiled old saddle, it may not match up with the rest of the interior (as is the case in some of the Ford F-series pickups with the "King Ranch" option).
It looks like most of these designs are embroidered. You might check your local yellow pages for a shop that does shirts and hats. Many are franchise operations that use a computer to drive an automated embroidery machine - much like a NC mill. Many can simply follow a scanned image or original art. Then have that panel sewn into the others that make up the seat back.
Just as there are many colors available today for saddles, you might shop around a bit before you select the "Basketball Orange" (Castano Brown). While it does resemble a traditional finely oiled old saddle, it may not match up with the rest of the interior (as is the case in some of the Ford F-series pickups with the "King Ranch" option).
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