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Step 8Upholster
Run a strip of your duct tape lengthwise. Make it taut. Run a widthwise strip to trap your foam and strips in their proper places. Make this taut also.
Don't use Gorilla Tape, use regular old duct tape. It has plenty of sticking power for this job. If you just tried to tape widthwise with Gorilla, you just learned why I say don't use it for this. Way too much sticking power. Since we're using the weak stuff, make sure you stick the tape to itself every time you wrap a strip of it. Sticking it to anything else won't work so good.
Continue your upholstering, working outward on each side of this center strip. Pull the tape taut, and make sure to overlap a little bit. Once you get the foam all covered in the narrow axis, make some longer strips to cover the back end. These need not wrap all the way around, but do make sure both ends are getting stuck to tape, not foam or wood. Pull these extra taut.
Finish the seat covering by wrapping some tape around the nose of the seat. In my case, there's no padding there. This is partly because of the physical limitations of my spare foam, and partially because I didn't want to encourage any part of my body to occupy that space.
Looks pretty sharp, don't it?
Don't use Gorilla Tape, use regular old duct tape. It has plenty of sticking power for this job. If you just tried to tape widthwise with Gorilla, you just learned why I say don't use it for this. Way too much sticking power. Since we're using the weak stuff, make sure you stick the tape to itself every time you wrap a strip of it. Sticking it to anything else won't work so good.
Continue your upholstering, working outward on each side of this center strip. Pull the tape taut, and make sure to overlap a little bit. Once you get the foam all covered in the narrow axis, make some longer strips to cover the back end. These need not wrap all the way around, but do make sure both ends are getting stuck to tape, not foam or wood. Pull these extra taut.
Finish the seat covering by wrapping some tape around the nose of the seat. In my case, there's no padding there. This is partly because of the physical limitations of my spare foam, and partially because I didn't want to encourage any part of my body to occupy that space.
Looks pretty sharp, don't it?
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