Yes and thanks for the question John. I will post some more photos shortly. I have both visors back on and I must say, that it was a Bi..h of a stitch!

Including my re stitch and the original manufacture, these visors have been stitched 3 times, plus there was glue applied as well. The stitch line on the front visor was also separated and suffering from old age red rot. I had to glue a patch strip of thin black leather behind/ along that broken/rotted stitch line, so as to have something for the thread to hold onto. I pride myself on the fact that normally, I can line up all the stitch holes and produce something that is exactly like the original but this time, there was just no way!

Many of you know, that I am a perfectionist so this drove me crazy but I had to step back, cool my jets and realize that everything can not be perfect....I did my best. It sure looks a Hell of a lot better than it did when it fell into my hands. I am still adding finish to those creases in the top of the shell just to sort of fill them in a bit. Tomorrow I put the fittings back on. One last thing, I really appreciate that all of my customers have never pressured me to live up to some deadline, it can't work that way. Case in point with this piece, the interior of the shell is a dark chocolate brown colour, I can only see the stitch holes in natural sunlight. So I had to tell the customer...I could only stitch on sunny days!

He was cool with that and we got it done. To be continued.

Remember, Pillage first THEN Burn ...