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Okay, I give up - how on earth do you seat makers feed the lace back through (between leather and foam) when you're braiding them together? I have a hard enough time when I'm doing something that I have access to the backside of? (scratching head) LOL Beauty work guy - diggin on the skull and lettering

very cool

Cool setup - is there a way to adjust the tension to allow for the thicker weights so as to not leave an impression of the clamping bar? How much would ya sell it for? Always the determining factor ... 'specially with mom & pop shops I would think

Ah hears ya ... just joshin

Padding? Rider's only gonna be on it for 7 seconds at a time ... tell 'em to suck it up!

Yupyup - used the heat gun on it (yes, sparingly ;0) with a good heavy coat and let 'er sit for about 4 hours. Once the buffing was done it beads water like a champ ... I'm sold I hear that. Been putting off a good work afternoon on my jacket, chaps, and saddlebags for over a year now (rolling my eyes) At least I know the bags will get a good going over this year because I plan on tooling up some replacements for the top panel of the lids. Boss bags are $$$$$$ I love em ... they just need a little "personalization ;0) Rubber side down bud, the cagers aren't used to seeing us yet this season! Rob

So I'm finishing off a windshield bag and I obviously want it really waterproofed as well as possible - it's certainly not going on a showbike ;0) Have tooled, dyed, neatsfooted, and leather sheened it. Now I've applied a good heavy coat of aussie wax to proof it and thought that using my heat gun (lightly) to kind of liquify the aussie wax a bit and insure that it's in all the tooling crannies etc. Good idea? Bad idea? unnecessary? Thoughts please folks Thanks in advance Rob

Wow! Yer a much quicker study than I am that's fo sho ;0) Nice job! <golfclap>

Wow Nice work That might be yer first seat but it's not your first leatherworking Got a shot from directly above it? Love to see more detail on you bordering work

That's a very tight seat

Yarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, nice work maytee, Yarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr ;0)

Niiiiice And on a beauty scoot too - love the single side swingarm

Actually I just re-read my post The "T" doesn't get flipped upside down - just the base gets bent upwards so that the cross of the T reaches the windscreen bolts either side of center. Good luck with it - I'll try to remember to post up pics when my brother gets it mounted

While it'll stiffen the leather I sure don't see it being irm enough to hold any amount of gear without the weight sagging them out. Not to mention what foul weather might do to the stiffness? I'd personally go with a hard inner panel (wheel side of bag) and then a heat formed plastic reinforcement liner that matches the profile of the bag while filling it full width. That's how my "Boss" bags are reinforced and they've held their shape perfectly for 4 years and 40,000 so far

I'm just finishing up a windshield bag for my brother's Police Road King. He had the two itty bitty ouch thing that followed the windshied - not real useful. I tried for quite a while to figure out how to build one that followed the curve of the windscreen and decided that beaing as I was gonna end up with a crease line in the top of the flap no matter what I did with a curved one, that I would make a better sized straight one instead. Now the issue you run into is how do I mount the thing? Got my bro to do up a drawing showing all of the measurements for his road king - spacing of windscreen bolts, placement and dimensions of tach etc etc. From that I came up with a bracket that looks like a T with a reeeeally fat base on it. Now turn the T upside down and (depending on how much room you have to lower the bag) fold the base back upwards. I put a piece on the back of the bag so that the bag gets slipped down over the tab that's now pointing upward (man this is hard to explain - get into my head with me ,,, I can see it perfectly ;0) Take a look at my page here http://mcbearcat.shawwebspace.ca/pages/ and about 2/3 down the page you'll see a pic of a partially finished bag alongside the double bag it's replacing. The two shots above that one show the attachment panel on the back as well. When all is said and done, his windscreen bag will not follow the curve of the screen (will mount on bolts either side of center bolt) but will be lower in his field of vision and fill in the gap above the tach quite nicely. It's 11 1/2" x 3" x 4" tall. Hope this helps Rob

Beeeeeautiful

I'm definitely looking forward to this once it's in larger format. From what I can see it looks amazing with symmetry that must take years to get right. Not to mention that he did a separate piece to show each different tool? That's dedication. Bring it on Allan!

Now that's just plain cool Great job!

Sooooo I can use their waterproofer right over top of the dye coat with no neatlac or any of the other sealer stuff? Still trying to get a grip on what different products actually do and don't wanna do the equivalent of putting furniture wax on an unsealed wood surface

Hehehe, as a matter of fact I just tried neat laq over tandy all in one on the weekend cuz I'd heard of someone doing it. Used a cloth to rub the neatlaq on as I'm not a big fan of leather under glass (thick coat that ya get with a brush). Didn't even notice while I was doing it but I guess I rubbed hard enough that I stripped some black dye off the high spots. Looked at it later and am still deciding whether to redye or if I like the weathered look as a finish product ;0) I'll post a pic later - need mo coffeeeeeeeee

okay, newbie question here ;0) Dye, oil, finish? I thought things like the conditioner were for maintenance "of" a finish? I'm a bit confused as to how I could get a "finish" to adhere to something that's been oiled? I really need to find a book on how to dye and seal etc leather LOL

Welcome from anuther that's new to the leather gig - hang on tight bud, it's a steeeeep learning curve with many many things to be learnt ... well, at least I'm finding it that way ;0) Rob

For some reason the original link wouldn't work for me but this one did http://www.revsarmourwerx.com/

Very cool I like the two colour edging - how on earth do you get your stamping right up to the (what I think is a) cut line but not go past, and with no beveling to hide the edge either. Neat

Ahhhhhh, I've been using the 45* 4 prong chisel and pulling through 8-9 ounce major pita LOL Bought a small spring loaded pair of pliers just to help in this one task. Again, looks great