new Sucker Punch Sallys seats

[Guest]

Johanna,

I was actually amazed at how much time the lettering took. Perhaps after a few of them I'll get faster. I feel I have to be so careful with the lettering. A little mistake in the lettering makes the whole seat look sloppy. If there was some other artwork on the seat to distract your eye a bit..... Well, mine is not to reason why.....etc. etc.

Matthew,

I use the 632148/AP003-N Slim Line S seat pan narrow.

Dave Theobald

[Beaverslayer]

David, whether the seat is plain in detail or not, they are still works of art. I know once you fire up that compressor and air brush, you'll make them far from ordinary. Great job.

Ken

[freak]

I'm with Kate on this one. I really like them and the first thing i thought of was they look like a throw back design. You know like how the NFL teams are wearing their old logos now. Something like that.

Dave i love your work man. It was great to see your seat in person and to ( lack of a better term ) man handle it. It was very hard to put it back on the table . I had to keep telling myself, " walk away, just walk away".

[Kevin King]

those are very nice! What impresses me is all the frikin letters. I hate letters. You've definately got it. I would think lettering would take longer than the artsy ones.

[Johanna]

Yep, David, freak drooled all over the Jesus seat, but after the Honda flood, I knew the seat could take it. I got a little worried in the competition room when he pointed out the helmet and said, "I'd like to put that on and run around in here!" Hey, freak, was that an excellent steak dinner we had later, or what? Wade has been doing stuff in the shop since we got home. He's a lot better at it than he thinks he is, naturally.

Johanna

[MikeG]

From a newbie:

I really like "clean" work and yours is beyootiful! I had to search out your other seats; they are also works of art.

To me a lot of carving can get pretty busy looking and even though I can be green with envy over the talent it takes, it's not always my favorite. Your work strikes a great balance with "white space," not having to use every bit of the leather with your designs. WOW!

I guess the bottom line is beauty is in the eye of the beholder and you should continue doing some of each.

MAN, this forum has me drooling!

[Don101]

Well what can i say i have always loved your work and bezas, its a shame as the seats you were doing before where custom seats and now its as if they only want the logo of the company for advertising, your work is clean and a loss to the upcoming customers of sucker punch as they arnt geting the full benifit of your abilities, due to the owners of sucker punch... and you can tell them i said that LOL, honestly if i was a customer for the bike they make i would want a custom seat on it and not a advert and i would contact you privatley to make me one to higher customized standards that you normally do,

i like the one in the middle out of the 3 but prefere the old seats, they were better, Don

[ClayB]

I agree with Don. I know it takes talent to do the lettering and make it look neat and clean, but to me it just looks like an advertisement for them. You should be doing the advertisement for YOU. Your past artwork has been awesome and I think they should let you use your imagination and talent to really make your (their) seats custom.

[Mike Phelps]

Yeah, I'm a bit on both sides of this.

The patience it took to hand tool the logos to look fine enough to be some CNC machine stamping/engraving put these in whole other realm. And we ain't seen the finished product.

I'm thinking these are above the likes of Andy Warhol and artist of that ilk. And remember these aren't static pieces of art but functional, kinetic pieces of rolling art.

Mike

[Guest]

I think the final count was 5-2 in favor of the seats.....I must say, I am rather surprised. BTW I prefer the middle one also. The shape mimics the overall shape of the seat and is pleasing to look at.

Dave