09/22/2026
Atomic Autoworks Is Changing—and It Started With These Red Bucket Seats
While finishing this sold pair of red standard-pleat low-back bucket seats for one very patient customer, something finally clicked.
For more than eight years, I have taught classes and created videos showing people how to complete automotive and motorcycle upholstery work. I’m proud of that history, and those videos are not going anywhere.
But there is now more how-to content available than ever before. The next chapter of Atomic Autoworks needs to be about using more than 30 years of experience to create—not simply explaining every individual step.
We will still show you the materials we use, the decisions we make, the problems we encounter and what professional work really requires. But the focus is changing to original builds, new products, customer projects and the honest process of growing our companies.
In this video, I also take you behind the scenes of the premium packaging we are developing for Stitch Freak, Atomic Cycle Works and Eddie Barrett. I explain why I decided against simply outsourcing generic leather goods and why our future products need to carry our own automotive- and motorcycle-inspired identity.
I’m not leaving the trades, and Atomic Autoworks isn’t going anywhere.
We are building the version of Atomic that I always wanted it to become.
Watch the video and tell me: What would you like to see us create next?