Three more goats died.

Note that they died humanely. No glue traps were used. I save the glue traps for mice and rats, not the goats.

The original vinyl seat cover lasted me from 1986 to 1989, at which time it was ripped and done. I had a local upholsterer recover my seat in goat skin in '89 and that one lasted until this year. OK, maybe it was past time last year, but I just recovered it. I broke out Grandma's hand crank Singer again. That piping is a PITA, easily doubling the work.

Before:

After:

Looks good, Doc!

You cut and sewed it yourself? Impressive work!

Piping is really hard work. Great job!

Thanks. Yeah, cut it all, sewed it all. Had to make the buttons twice. I bought a set of metal buttons at wally world, cut out leather disks, sewed a purse stitch around the perimeter, glued them on the buttons, pulled tight. They looked great. Put them all through the seat and went to tighten them down. About the third one popped and the button went flying across the shop, lost forever. I thought the nylon button thread broke. Pulled on another and this time had the seat upside down to catch it when it broke. Examination of the button showed the button itself broke. The thread was stronger than the metal button. So I took the old buttons and cleaned them up with a wire wheel and started over.

Oh, and I bought a pneumatic staple gun for this project. One of my better $30 purchases. Shoots T50 staples. HF needs to start carrying those. Got it on Amazon.

Nice job! Wish I still had my antique Singer.

The seat looks great!

Was it this staple gun:

http://www.amazon.com/Surebonder-9600A-Heavy-Duty-Staple/dp/B000EOJPC6

Yeah, that's the staple gun. Should have bought one of those years ago. Coupled with the little $40 pancake compressor, that's going to make a lot of jobs a whole lot easier.

Might have to give goat a chance if I ditch the vinyl which I recovered the seat in. The pakis make a hell of a goat curry.

I think you mighbe be able to get a sportster solo seat out of one goat. Although, I did use two goats for this one:

on the chopper. That seat is actually half a softtail seat. There wasn't enough goat for all of it and I had to use 2 skins with about 1/3 goat left over. You also have to work around flaws in the leather, holes, etc. It's not like buying a yard of vinyl.