The SS wheel of me 1999 Bavaria needs new leather covering. The leather there now is the original and has been restitched in places three times, but now the leather is actually tearing in places. The kits you see from WH, and even from Edson, are not sized perfectly for the rim circumference, it evidently being a metric size (i.e., not an Edson wheel). Edson service told me the best way to recover it; that is, to get the best job done, would be a custom “size and stitch.” That is, cut the leather to the correct size then stitch it. They actually have a local marine crafts person there in New Bedford (who would have thought?) who can do it, he told me. Not a deal-breaker for me, but I’d have to send it off, etc. I was thinking a little closer to home might work better logistically. Any suggestions about where to inquire? Who does this kind of nearly lost-art work these days, and where? I’ve already inquired around San Diego and San Pedro w/o success.
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