grubb Report post Posted June 1, 2010 Here is an example of the seat that I am wanting to make. No Tooling. Open Stitch. Very similar to this, although my pan will have a slightly different shape and not quite as much of a bend to it. My question is regarding the forming. Most of the tutorials I've seen of wet forming involved forming over a very solid object (such as a knife or a pistol). The one tutorial on this site showing forming for a leather bag, used a wooden buck to form over. Will the seat padding be firm enough to wet form over directly, or will I need to make a wooden buck to form over? It would be very difficult to make a wooden buck to mimic the shape of the seat, due to the compound curves involved. Also will 7/8oz be too thick to form well? Since I will not be tooling, would I be better off using a 5/6oz? Thanks! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MADMAX22 Report post Posted June 2, 2010 If you use neoprene it should be fine. I did mine over neoprene but it was a big cruiser type seat so a little different but it still worked. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TroyS Report post Posted June 2, 2010 Here is an example of the seat that I am wanting to make. No Tooling. Open Stitch. Very similar to this, although my pan will have a slightly different shape and not quite as much of a bend to it. My question is regarding the forming. Most of the tutorials I've seen of wet forming involved forming over a very solid object (such as a knife or a pistol). The one tutorial on this site showing forming for a leather bag, used a wooden buck to form over. Will the seat padding be firm enough to wet form over directly, or will I need to make a wooden buck to form over? It would be very difficult to make a wooden buck to mimic the shape of the seat, due to the compound curves involved. Also will 7/8oz be too thick to form well? Since I will not be tooling, would I be better off using a 5/6oz? Thanks! I would use 5/6 oz for the seat since there is no tooling involved. And you should be fine wet forming that leather. If you wanted to meet in the middle, you could cut a piece of 3/4" plywood in the shape of your foam, then mold the leather to the plywood. once it dries, you won't have to fight it as bad during final assembly... Hope it helps... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
grubb Report post Posted June 2, 2010 Cool. Thanks guys! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
