painting leather
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Started working on the mk1 again and found someone ( yes my ex wife) who would make the seat covers to my wishes ( might be with deadly spike's in it but risk i am willing to take)

now i seen quite some leather sofa's for free on the internet and was thinking why not get those strip the leather off and paint it to what color i like...

but i read good and bad things about it ( as always on the internet) any of you have a idea how well or how bad this will go? is it worth the effort? i would go out and buy some leather but do not find the color i like ( no not pink... actually did find that) but did found a company who said they can paint it that color so... if they can i was guessing why cant i??? only 700 euro cheaper....

spill your thoughts!!!!





Edited - I assume "painting leader" was a typo...

Edited by TurboDave16V on 21st Nov, 2016.

you can do anything if you set your mind to it...
i rather blow it up winning than keep it together losing.

finish date set for project 1... march 2018

I was going to go down this route originally. I also looked into leather sofas and although technically leather, it's frequently low quality. Sometimes it's one hide split into 2 or more layers then the grain is embossed back on to it. It's normally already has a plastic coating to make it durable - I don't know how well another paint on top would last. Depending on how thick it is, you'd need a heavy duty sewing machine.

In the end we went with vinyl. We bought a lot of samples to find one with the quality we wanted, but more than happy with the way it's looking so far. Certainly better than a tired sofa.

Edited by PhilR on 19th Nov, 2016.

Comment about quality is very apposite as is the mention of lacquer.

I successfuly renovated leather upholstery in a 50 year old car (quality stuff) by stripping all colour and re dying. No lacquer involved there

Cant see the picture. But maybe back to some shops for vinyl then...

you can do anything if you set your mind to it...
i rather blow it up winning than keep it together losing.

finish date set for project 1... march 2018

fixed pic

Just can't deside what color seats and Carpet i want with a florida green traveller. Hard to match something that has that thing to it...

you can do anything if you set your mind to it...
i rather blow it up winning than keep it together losing.

finish date set for project 1... march 2018