New seats

[Guest]

Hi all,

Been lurking here for a while. Here is my first showing off post. Comments welcome good or bad.

David Theobald

[Chitin]

Those are gorgeous!

[pepin1948]

I love them! My favorite is the first one shown. Both have such a nice stain job, as well as the stitching.

ps I have that same mallet...

[Tracy Dotson]

Thats some beautiful work there David

[Guest]

Thanks to all,

I appreciate the kind words.....I've been tooling about a year; I have no one around here from whom I can learn.....so sites like these are vital to a newbie like me.

Dave Theobald

[shirleyz]

Hi Dave,

About time you quit lurking and came out in the open. Glad you made it over here. Like I said before, love your seats, gorgeous.

Shirley Z

[ClayB]

Ok, what is it with you people and motor cycle seats? Shirley has been carving for a year and a half and Dave for a year and you both do some really great work!!! I really like seeing the designs you come up with that are so different than the traditional carving designs that have been around for so long. And the lacing really dresses them up too.

I hope you both continue to share pictures of your work.

Clay

[Guest]

Hi Clay,

Thanks for the compliments. I'm glad you find our work interesting. I think the nature of our art work probably has something to do with how we came to leather carving. Me? I was making knives and decided to make a few sheaths to store them. When my son saw the sheaths, he asked me to try to make him a seat for his motorcycle that he was building. Well I made 4 seats....three of them were really bad....the last try turned out pretty nice. It was a copy of the tattoo that he has on his arm.... A king of Hearts. When my son's boss at the custom bike shop where he worked saw the seat, he asked me to make a seat for a show bike that they were building for the Easyriders show coming up in one month. That was my first sale....there have been about 50 since then. Yes, that means I don't have time to do much other than bike seats.....Anyway many if not most of the artwork resembles tattoo art rather than traditional cowboy leatherwork. It makes for some interesting seats.

Here is another tattoo seat. This one is on the Boss's arm. Well, that is how this whole thing started for me.

"That's my story and I'm stickin' to it" ha ha

Dave Theobald

[Guest]

Shirley,

Thanks for the nice words, we definately have a mutual admiration thing going here. Your work is beautiful.

Dave

[ClayB]

Hi David,

Thanks for sharing your story. I find the work you are doing inspired by tattoo work really interesting. This seat is really nice! Doing portraits on leather is supposed to be really difficult, didn't anyone tell you that???

Is there any chance I could see a bigger picture. I'd like to see how you did the details. And one last question (for now) do you have a site somewhere that shows more of your work? I for one would like to see more!

Clay