Finished my 'Lil Outlaw' seat and Dash panel

[LAROC]

Finally I finished my first pieces of work last night, my motorcycle seat and dash panel.

Until two months ago I had never done any work in leather and so I'm thrilled with how they have worked out.

I have done everything myself thanks to this site giving me the confidence to have a go.

A big thanks to Roger at RHD for his 'How To' article on this site and for answering a couple of simple questions I asked him by email.

I used 7/8 oz tooling leather for my design and 2/3oz leather for the sides, plus 3mm Kangaroo lace for all the lacing.

I couldn't belive how much lace I used just for the seat, dash and hand grips I've made...10metres in total,

so now I need to order more to finish the matching pillion seat and roll bags.

Anyway here are the pics of how it looks before finishing with the leather dressing.

[Casey Jordan]

That seat turned out real nice!

Love the coloring, nice job!

[David Fields]

It looks really good to me! Did you use an airbrush to color it?

[MADMAX22]

Nicely done, turned out very good.

[Roger]

well done!

came out real nice.

[LAROC]

It looks really good to me! Did you use an airbrush to color it?

Yes I've airbrushed the stain to build up the colour gradually light to dark.

I rubbed down the sprayed area once almost coated to take off any overspray and in order to build up the overall tone.

I only used three dyes to get the colours and these worked really well together.

Colours used were: Light Tan, British Tan and Mahogany. The two tans blended really well and I used a reducer to blend the colours almost to dilute them as I was working the tones.

[276ccm]

Outstanding!