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Old 31st January 2019, 15:52
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After all this time building, you would think that I should be able to leave little problems alone by now.

But no.

Unfortunately, the more I looked at these little ripples in the driver's head rest, the more I knew I couldn't live with them.



So I marked up the offending section.



And removed the stitching.



As I'd already trimmed off the excess material I came up with the idea of bull dog clipping the leather together.

Do not adjust your eyesight, the photo is blurred.



The good news was that by pulling the face to meet the edge, it looked like the ripples could be removed.



The bad news was that this would cut a chunk off the corner of the head rest.

This crap photo is showing where the original line of the corner was on the plywood vs. the leather.



Now if the small ripples were going to bug me, there was no way that I could live with this odd shape on one side.

So I decided to resew the face in its original position while trying to 'tuck' the ripples behind the corner.

This this sounded like a plan in theory.

It even seemed to work went I held it all together by hand/clip.

But in practise, there was no way that I could excess material 'go away' neatly .



Remind me whose dumb idea it was to do this job myself?

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