Learn the difference between leather and vinyl

Hello! This is a video about How To Tell The Difference Between Upholstery Leather And Vinyl. Also Showing Specs, Thickness difference, glue clean-up, Colors, and Grains.
Today is the making of seat upholstery with many of the techniques I have used and developed after doing auto upholstery for up to 44 years at this point in my career! Please support my new YouTube channel by Liking and Subscribing, Ring that bell! I have a working upholstery shop where I do something different every day. I am posting videos often. Stay Tuned if you want to learn more. Hit the subscribe button, and check back in as I upload more videos showing the closely guarded techniques I have developed over 434 years! Please like and subscribe to my new channel, Thanks! As ALWAYS, No sponsors were begged to for the making of this video. I paid for everything!

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[oldschoolautoupholstery]

Also see the difference between vinyl or leather.
Please hit the "$uper Thank$ Button" I don't think it's working... And the LIKE button while you're at it! Thanks a bunch! 😀

Please help me to grow my new YouTube channel by Liking and Subscribing!
I have a working upholstery shop where I do something different every day.
I am posting videos often, Thanks!
As ALWAYS, No sponsors were begged to for the making of this video. I paid for everything!

Check out my other channels:
The Modernlith Foam Jet Boat Project

Old School Upholstery Techniques

60 and Mortgage Free

[kadoku]

You would make so much money by providing seat cover replacements for our older cars. Times are tough and many are keeping our older cars that need TLCs. I would trust your products over ebay. Thank you for the video~!!

[midwestkustomz]

Listen to this guy people, I've been trying to tell people this exact stuff about leather & vinyls for the years that I have been doing it and he has been doing it a lot longer than I have & nothing has changed except for more time! 🤣🤣 Good stuff!

[joewolf]

As you said ... the big difference is price ... lot of good information in this one ... great video ...

[deltajohnny]

Great video! The only one that I have seen in which I've learnt the truth about leather vs vinyl. Impeccably explained! 👏👏😁😁

[hobsonbeeman]

Excellent explanation and product comparison. I get a lot of knowledge ( pleather?..lol)from your videos…thanks for taking the time to put these videos together

[paulsears]

Thank you for posting. This is super helpful and informative!

[klwtherd]

Honestlly when i have my upholstery recovered i choose to have it done in vinyl. Today it looks as good as Leather and you know what, Vinyl doesn't crack and is much more rugged than leather. Leather doesn't hold up worth a crap. All the cars i owed with leather seats always cracked even with all the conditioning and care i gave those seats. Vinyl for the win.

[craigmonteforte]

Thankyou i didn’t know about the MineralSpirits being safe to use i’ve always have a tendency to be extremely cautious on using chemicals on Upohlstery in fear of dissolving or causing damage to it but now i know more than i did

[richardbyrne]

In upholstered furniture to keep cost down they advertise "touch leather", meaning any area that the body touches when setting normally is real leather, the rest is vinyl. Car interiors are no different, all about cost savings! Great video

[craigmonteforte]

I did know that trick about the Vinyl on Car seats being used in those areas but i will admit that i’ve been on some very nice Motor Yachts that have furniture that is Vinyl but it’s a very high Quality one that really looks and feels great i think the Trade name was Ultra Leather and in all honesty it holds up better than that Bnded Leather Crap that they were at one point inthe Furniture Trade to legally call Leather? i beleive that isn’t the case any longer my personal ProfessionalBackground was many years in the Woodworking and Furniture business and that industry went through many years of debates on what could or could not be called Solid Wood as at one Point most items were Veneered Substrates that could be capped with the same Species of Solid Wood and be called RealWood currently in that Industry because of newer technology many people now use HPDL that has a Woodgrain pattern on it that is actually a photograph printed onto the Plastic Shheets that many people refer to as Formica which really is a Trade name owned by one company and many folks use Formica more as a generic name for similiar products like Kleenex would be to a paper or disposable Hankerchef

[MrDemetrisK]

Thank you for sharing all that good knowledge and experience . I want to say as far i understand (maybe im wrong) marine quality has always synthetic fabric backing cause supposed to be resistant to mold rather than a cotton knitted fabric backing of the non marine standard vinyl. Great videos !

[joebacon]

I am be doing upholstery work since 1977 I know what you're talking about!!

[tinabutters-hargrave]

I feel I'm taking advantage of your videos by not dropping some cash. Covid forced me to rethink working in the corporate world. Sir, thank you so much for inspiring this mature lady an avenue to support myself again.

[dukeallen]

Great information. Thanks for sharing.

[Todd]

Thinking about it, now it makes sense…however I always believed the vinyl would stretch more. I like the leather. I love how it looks, smells and feels. That texture of the vinyl looks really good.
Cool videos. Makes me want to send you my drivers seat bottom, it’s cracked and needs replaced. I think it’s vinyl though 😢

[King-rgll]

Some vinyls nowadays are extremely similar to leather

[garygerard]

Wow, I didn't know the part about them putting plastic Over the leather.
Bless their pointed little heads 😆
I both learn from and enjoy your videos / keep 'um coming.

[JosephDR]

Great content, Rudy! Hey remember Corinthian leather from Chrysler?

[jbw]

Keep it up my bro….
There weren’t any “tech #’s” this time tho! My log book has missing numbers now!! Haha. Great video, man. How can i find tech tip # 1?