PTO & TC leather shift boot

I made a set of these in my intro auto upholstery class at the local community college last semester. I used Gale's pattern and thought they came out pretty decent. The drawings don't show it, but you do need to sew the tips of the cone-shaped pieces back to create the opening for shift rods. Figured that out the hard way I did these after considerable practice on the industrial dual feed sewing machines. Sewing the cones onto the base ring requires careful control to avoid feeding fingers under the pressed foot and needle! The ones I made were of scrap black leather-texture vinyl. I may do another set using real leather this semester. If you have access to a heavy enough sewing machine, give Gale's design a try.
Steve

By folding the tip of each half-cone and sewing a 1/2" hem, you end up with a nice finished edge when the two halves are then stitched together (outside surfaces face to face) then turned inside out. This also allows lock stitching at the top. Glad to hear glove leather worked well.
Steve

Thanks for the link. Will check it out tonight.

do you have any of these anymore? 

Thanks Bob!