New to site, photos of my seats

[royale5]

I am new to this site and can see it is going to be eating up some of my free time looking around at everything! I have been doing leatherwork for almost 2 years now and have done almost a dozen cycle seats. Here are some photos of my work.

Seat for my personal bike

Some customer requests:

[wintermte]

Nice. I really like the anagram for sinner/saint seat.

Dan

[dennis0424]

here is a question royale5, what did you use for the white dye?

many thanks

[royale5]

here is a question royale5, what did you use for the white dye?

many thanks

The white is cova.

[gtwister09]

Nice work and stitching. Unique idea on the the use of stingray on the eyes in the skull.

Any issues with sliding across the skill and catching as you slide across? I saw what appeared to be some stitching hidden in some of the skull features.

Regards,

Ben

[ETW Grumpy]

Sweeet! You do a lot of two-up seats, do you use the original cover as a pattern or make new ones? Got a guy wanting me to do a Softtail seat, and I'm kind of intimidated by the paatern making part. Do you use the original foam, or go with closed cell neoprene? Great looking seats.

[dennis0424]

The white is cova.

thank you anyway, but I still don't know what is cova

[manfrommuc]

@dennis

cova color is water based acrylic color for leather.....

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very nice seats you made

have you no problems with sealing the color against rain??

greez

johann

[royale5]

Sweeet! You do a lot of two-up seats, do you use the original cover as a pattern or make new ones? Got a guy wanting me to do a Softtail seat, and I'm kind of intimidated by the paatern making part. Do you use the original foam, or go with closed cell neoprene? Great looking seats.

Sorry I have been away for a few weeks.

Grumpy, I made a new pattern mainly because the stock one has a few extra panels in it to help bend the contours. The two up seats are quite a bear to wrap to the pan, but a few relief cuts and contact cement and you can get through it. I wanted to say you do some great work too. I am also a member on club chopper and have seen your work there.

Ben, the stingray is stitched in some of the creases of the skull tooling. I was not comfortable with contact cement holding the stingray in place so the stiches are more for my piece of mind. The seat has been on for about 5 months now and he has not had any complaints about catching in the inlay areas.

[McJeep]

Real clean work - like em all!

[scottishshoemaker]

Really nice work.