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The Shop Features McPherson Interview

July 29, 2016 By Naseem Muaddi

Auto Upholstery - The Hog Ring - Michael Dudley

Check out the August 2016 issue of The Shop magazine to read our exclusive interview with Michael Dudley, a former auto upholstery shop owner-turned-assistant professor at McPherson College, the first U.S. school to offer a bachelor’s degree in automotive restoration.

Below is an excerpt from the interview:

Do you find that some of the students actually prefer doing upholstery over other aspects of automotive restoration?

Yeah. Trim work is a lot less noisy compared to grinders going and hammering on metal all day and getting dirty with body work. It’s cleaner, it’s less noisy and it’s healthier compared to painting and vehicular dust all over your body constantly.

How many of your students go on to pursue a career in auto upholstery?

I think a lot of them have the desire to. It’s just a matter of getting up and going. Probably the most surprising thing to see is a lot of them come in with a sea of notions about sewing and not really thinking they’ll enjoy it. But as time goes on they express that they really do enjoy it. That’s the most valuable thing that I see in them.

Does McPherson College offer internships or career placement opportunities to students?

Yeah, definitely. … Generally we have a lot of internships across the country for them in the summers, like in museums and workshops. I would like to hopefully get some more trim internships going here. That would be kind of nice to find shops around the country that would want to host students during the summer time.

To read the full interview, DL a free copy of The Shop and skip to page 66.

[Photo by Colleen Gustafson]

Filed Under: Archive, The Hog Ring News Tagged With: Auto Trim, Auto Upholstery, Car Interior, McPherson College, The Shop

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  1. Michelle Rack says

    March 7, 2023 at 2:52 am

    wow you guys are so lucky to have that opportunity like specially in the Auto trimming side .
    in my country South Africa, the last training school we had for Trimmers shut down +-20years
    we have such talented young men who are trained in our workshop.
    ive been with company for 22 years i run one of our workshop and im a female im passionate about my job days i feel like interior plastic surgeon,
    i love my job guy
    no challenge to no challenge to small speak to Michelle
    you only as good as last job that leaves the workshop

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