Finally finished something

[bustedlifter]

I've been working on a few projects lately but I haven't finished anything until today. Well I did make a belt for a tattoo artist friend but I forgot to take pics of it. At any rate, here's a new seat for my bike. I'm keeping the old one and probably going to make another one later and swap them out when I get the itch.

The big design was drawn by the old Iron Horse magazine editor David Snow. It was my favorite bike rag and during Snow's time in the editor's seat it set a standard that most publications cannot equal, even today, imho. The smaller one was drawn by the tattoo artist ,who did my wife's back piece ,for some work I did for him. It depicts an H-D lifter coming from together,hence, bustedlifter. There's still some Aussie conditioner visible in the tooling that has to wear in.

[jamesg63]

Very Nice. Thanks for sharing

[Lui]

Very cool seat indeed, I agree with you about the magazine It was the best one out there. I got a buddy of mine that was good friends with the owner and is working on a knucklehead for him. Dont know if the bike is finished I aint seen him in a few months now.

and that horse is the coolest, the first MC seat I ever did I carved that horse on it for my buddy he wanted it for the smoke out 7

Lui

[Kustomizer]

Nice Job!!! Any bigger pics?

Edited March 20, 2009 by Kustomizer

[TomSwede]

Nice work Busted!!!

I really like the colour and how well it goes with the black parts!!

Really nice pattern and tooling!!!

Tom

[bustedlifter]

Nice Job!!! Any bigger pics?

Thanks! Try these.

Nice work Busted!!!

I really like the colour and how well it goes with the black parts!!

Really nice pattern and tooling!!!

Tom

Thanks Tom. And these.

I used black Sharpies and some of it lifted after I antiqued and put some Aussie stuff on it. I think it gives it a kind of worn in look right from the start. And there is an inner tube in it for padding.

Edited March 21, 2009 by bustedlifter

[jammon]

Nice work! thanks for the tip on the Aussie stuff.

[hushnel]

That's great, good work.

Man I had a blast at the "Smoke Out" the two years we dragged our butts up there. Geno was going to do an a piece on my seats a few years back, it never panned out but Katmandu did a piece on my stuff for a local rag late last year. Got a good chance to talk with Paul Cox and did a few jobs for Billy Lane.

I'm kind of glad it has died off a bit, seats where a lot of work.

[bustedlifter]

That's great, good work.

Man I had a blast at the "Smoke Out" the two years we dragged our butts up there. Geno was going to do an a piece on my seats a few years back, it never panned out but Katmandu did a piece on my stuff for a local rag late last year. Got a good chance to talk with Paul Cox and did a few jobs for Billy Lane.

I'm kind of glad it has died off a bit, seats where a lot of work.

Thanks! I've been doing more local stuff lately. I sent a sample of my work to a shop owned by someone who's on the current "Celebrity Apprentice". I received a call from the shop manager who said he would send me a pan to cover for a try out.However, I recently read where the same shop owner is no longer going to sell parts so that explains why I never received the pan.

Oh well, that's the way it goes. Paul Cox seems like a pretty cool dude, I checked out some of his work a few years ago at the U.S Nationals.

Edited March 24, 2009 by bustedlifter

[BruceGibson]

Nice job!

[hushnel]

Yeah, you notice how smooth Paul's beveling is, he doesn't draw it out but man is it smooth. I talked with a bunch of shops but down here in Miami they were clueless on how much time it took, they wanted to pay me $200.00 for a tooled seat along with padding the pan. Then give me attitude about my prices. I got tired of the haggling but I still do it for my buddies.

You ever notice how these guys would put together a beautiful bike then hand you the lamest un-symmetrical seat pan. Man, I had some work on my hands trying to make a symmetrical pattern line up with the seat and the bike. I had to buy and grinder to even up a few of these pans, like I need an excuse to by a power tool

Again your work is excellent, charge them until it hurts

[bustedlifter]

Thanks for the good words, everyone. Hushnel, that's the reason I like to make my own pans. If it's a local job I can make the pan and make sure it fits the bike to the customers satisfaction. I made a seat for a dude in Texas that I sent the pan to twice before it was right, guess I'm just a pushover, hahaha.

[Amaral]

And there is an inner tube in it for padding.

Busted,

Do you any pics that you could share about the inner tube assembly?

Awesome job man.

Thanks

Amaral

[bustedlifter]

Busted,

Do you any pics that you could share about the inner tube assembly?

Awesome job man.

Thanks

Amaral

Thanks! I'm currently working on another seat for my tattoo artist friend ,Big Will. I'll see if I can scrounge up some batteries for the camera and post some pictures.