Absolute Begginer

[LuisPaulo]

Hi,

Near my house there is a Harley Davison shop. Today, I met the owner and talk to him about my part time job with leather ...

He asks me to show some jobs and he interested that I made some items to be displayed in his shop.

Since I have absolute no experience with seats, I think to do some bags (I either have no experience with that, but I guess it is less complicated to do).

What do you think guys ? And, how can I start with the businness of making seats ?

Regards from Brazil.

[TomSwede]

Hi Luis!

I think it would be a great idea for you to show some pictures of what you have done so everyone can see at what level your skill are.

Not knowing this it's is hard to pass on advice for something as complex as bikeseats.

I've done some stuff in leather and tooling is probably what I'm best and I wan't try a bikeseat but since I keep getting other assignments all the time I just push the seatmaking aside being as complex as it is and I get my bread n milk money elsewhere at the moment.

To try with a general advice for you I's say yuo start with getting a seatpan and try to get the feel for how it will be done or a whole seat to rip apart and make templates from the pieces, make the seat as it is but maybe with tooling if you do tooling.

Best wishes from cold Sweden

Tom

[Roger]

luis,

i would say to start with some tool bags ect. and get fimilliar with covering seats before you do one for the shop

[TomSwede]

And scavenge the threads here I should add. Not all biker related stuff is in the biker forum part.

Lots of nice seats are in the show off forum and for example Beezas seats can be found there and then persons like me ask for explanations of the making and photos showing how it's done get's posted in there aswell. That's how kind and helpful people are around here.

Tom