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[TracyMoss]

Welcome, lots of bikers around here. Were gettin' overrun. Nice seats.

[ArtS]

Awesome!! Really nice work. How does that side panel attach to the tank?

ArtS

Just stumbled into this site - lots of good information. I started some years back as a harness maker, but business took another direction. Now I do about anything related to motorcyle leather but tooling is new to my arsenal within the last couple of years. Although this has become something I'm really getting into.

The picture I have posted is of my most recent seat along with a matching toolbag and one of the poanels made to attach to the side of the tank.

Thanks

Ian

[Art]

Hi Ian,

Years ago the leather used to be cased overnight, however today most of the stuff I get I can wet down and let come back to color and start pounding. I use stuff called Pro-Carv in the water, but Dawn works pretty good also.

Art

Thanks Drac,

Funny thing is, i had a hadful of tools that I'd never used. A guy came into the shop and asked me if I do tooled seats. Hell yeah, I told him. Then I had a couple of weeks to figure out how to use them. I should have gotten a book or something, because it's all been trial and error. Heck, I didn't even know about casing leather overnight until today - I've just wet it and started carving. I think I'll learn a lot here. The new upload is of the first tooling I ever did. I did the matching bag later.

Ian

[Ian]

Awesome!! Really nice work. How does that side panel attach to the tank?

ArtS

Thanks everyone for the generous welcome. This site is awesome - I just spent the good portion of the day reading all the informative posts. Man, does that saddle that Troy posted make me want to be an all-around better human being - it's out of this world beautiful.

Art, I made that set as a showpiece for a bike show, so I'm not even sure that the tank panel is practical, but when I get the tank back from the painter, I'm going to attach it with contact cement. I think it should stay on pretty good, but would definitely be a problem washing the bike. My first idea was to mount it on a magnetic backing like was they use for vehicle signs, but I'm not going to take any orders for them just in case they turn out too problematic.

Anyway, I'm happy I found this site. It's going to make a huge difference in my work.

Ian

[Roger]

IAN!!

i have been wonrdering what happened to you. i haven't seen you around the chopper board.

welcome and glad you found us

[abn]

Wow. Those pics are one heck of an introduction! Glad you found us, and I'm looking forward to seeing more.

Alex

[Ian]

IAN!!

i have been wonrdering what happened to you. i haven't seen you around the chopper board.

welcome and glad you found us

Hey Beez, I've been working 7 days a week with the shop all year, so didnt have much time for surfing and posting. I closed the storefront and am back to working out of the workshop and taking a more manageable number of jobs. I got so swamped that I didn't have the time to spend on improving and doing the more artistic things.

[steveb]

Looks great Ian - really clean look - I like it and your tooling is quite good.

Do you work for any shop in particular??

anyway...

I am in Southern CT, nice to see another East Coaster/New Englander here!!

steveb

[Don101]

Hi Ian welcome to the forum love the spider seat that is some nice work you do there, Don

[bustedlifter]

Neat-o! Great work. Looks like the tooling

" baptism by fire" worked out just fine.