The Upholstery Forum

Hello. I have reupholstered seat pads and seat backs for my 1975 Pinzgauer, it is a NATO search and rescue vehicle. I say this to clarify that this doesn’t need to be fancy. I took quarter inch plywood and coated it several times with penetrating epoxy, added foam, and folded over Sunbrella fabric and stapled it into place. Now I need to attach the seat backs to the frames. I didn’t think about this before I made the pads. I’m wondering if there is a best way to afix them rather than pull the fabric back off and drill through. Advice on identifying and place to buy any fasteners that could suit the purpose would be much appreciated. Thank you very much, in advance.

Just pull the staples and put in your fastener system, 1/4” ply seems thin.

This would be a good place to use t-nut, but they should have been installed before the padding was added to the wood.