Xian does THE best leather seats that I have seen on the web. HANDS DOWN... stuff doesn't even look real
I've actually known this guy for over a year, so he's not some estranged contact (I made him sound so in my original post.. oops)
He was totally going for the "industrial look".. I think he would actually take your comment as a huge compliment... The angle is pretty bad in the shot, but that isn't the main shot for the product, the one above was only to show his new gloss black finish it came in . His place of work/business is actually called "The Barn", he thinks it clever to be putting out such high quality product in the setting shown, and I gotta say for it being 100% hand made by himself that I've always liked the whole idea (maybe it's a biker thing? I think riding motorcycles for sole transportation messes with our brains?)
back to leather though.... I'm going to try daubing the red dye on "post-crease" and see what I get!
Also thank you for the light box tip etc... I'm going to be looking that up for sure, because dang it would be nice to just take a picture in the garage!
Hope you all had a very Merry Christmas! I'll post pics in this thread, hopefully with some awesome detail, when it's done so you guys can see what I've been rambling about