silkfatblues

This is the second seat I ever made 3 years ago I think and a few pics how I renewed it a little bit... Did some more tooling and painted the scull and lettering, then used some sand paper to add more used feel...

thanx for the research I'll take more pics of the parts with HD markings next time, have to borrow the macro lense...

I have made this seat some time ago an I saw the bike just the other day. This is vintage italian moped Radaelli and it seems it was developed in colaboration with Harley Davidson cause a lot of parts have HD markings... I think it's gonna be a beauty

I think my secret is when someone says "it can't be done" or "that aint gonna work" or "thats not your job" and so, I get angry and my stubborn head keeps going forward :D Thanx!!!! The zone you mentioned is the most important magical thing that keeps me in love in creative interventions sometimes it doesn't happen and I know I'm not giving all I got, either I'm tired or deconcentrated, but when it's there I can work nights and weekends like it's nothing... It's not healthy like that but my advantage is I can take any day off from work and recharge... Taking pics for a timelapse is actualy very simple... For a HD video you need a photo not bigger than 1080 X 1920 pixels... so if you shoot with a camera with more pixels you need to lower your photo quality and some programs do that for you... what I want to say a pro camera is not a must have for a very cool timelapse... you need a tripod and a triger/timer that you can set to any speed you think is ok... you need 25 pics per second, so it is 1500 pics per a minute... and that shows a lot!! I'll do that as soon as I find a cool enough project Cheers, Silk

Thanx man!!!!! here is one I made yesterday... S&W and a couple of magazines...

that is a great idea, actaly making a timelapse video could be a fantastic way of showing people how something can be done... I'll do that soon

Todays work, instagram again... A seat for a vintage Moto Guzzi. I am angry at myself for not taking the "before" pic and the whole proces... Sorry guys..

few more holsters... Ruger revolver Glock 19 Smith & Wesson 686 revolver

sorry no underside pics, I delivered the seat this morning... but nothing special, just folded leather... sometimes I use Cordura to cover the whole surface on the underside (on this type of seats)... my next task is finding some cool paints and dyes for leather... I want to learn how to make those colour tooled images back to drawing board

and another seat for a chopper... simple but nice

the lace realy is a leather lace but realy thick (around 2,5 mm) and sturdy, so it is not easy to do more complicated lacing with that lace... but a good thing is it is hard to brake... the lace has a round cut and that is why it looks more like a cord than a lace... I get it from italy and I must say it is much better and still cheaper than that stinky kangaroo lace everybody love so much )) but that is just my point of view No problem, you can find me on FB, try Silvio Loncaric Silkfatblues, I want to see ) I used to have a tele, les paul and a strat and the pic was called THE HOLLY TRINITY :D I'll find it somehow...

@benlilly i realy don't know the name of that stich... i just did what came to my mind first ) but I think Cybertrasher is right, I do know some blankets have their edges finished like that... @cybertrasher the thinline rocks! friend has one... I use strat mostly and Gibson LP deluxe sometimes... cheers, Silk

@Cybertrasher, be my guest :D borrow, recycle, reproduce and give it your own stamp ideas are free btw cool SG!!! is it Guild or Gibson (or something third)?

And some leather pouches for a bike...

so what youre sayin is that you didn't read what we wrote and you didn't get what we need and blah blah blah soft delete hahahahah u kill me! lets make it simple... Can you in any way make it possible for us to repair the missing links of photos in our topics? Thanx! Silk

is it possible that nobody replyed at all? admins, where are you??

thanx Cyberthrasher!!! and some aditional tooling on the previous seat... Geckos of the world, UNITE!!! :D

I am with you on this shtoink!! personaly, what hapend to me is this third scenario where links of photos dont work any more and now there I have 3 pages of posts with no pics of progres of some work and so... very frustrating to say the least... so now we have peoples replyes to empty pages, so much for the broken topics... can we work this out somehow???? anybody??? thanx Silk

Thanx Benilly A small repair of harley sidebags and new custom tooled covers...

and another seat based on a tattoo... and my dog Django

fantastic engraving!!!!! personaly I would use longer stitches and thicker thread, but wow!!!

Great work!!! I wanna learn how to dye like that cheers, Silk

I like it! Hope to se the pics of finished bike till summer cheers, Silvio

thanx a lot here is another fresh seat, finished it last night, late last night... not realy my cup of tea but the customers wishes come first... I just dont like carving leather for seats that have this weird shape, it is impossible to make it from one peice... the other thing that bugged me was dye... couldnt mix the right colour... and the brown peice being so tooled took more dye in and got a lot darker than it was ment to... In the end I am ok with it but we shall se what the customer thinks tomorrow

hi guys, here is another short movie... Lonac doing his thing... https://vimeo.com/53834795 cheers, Silk