First Seat Hd Soloseat

[TomSwede]

Finally got my first seat done. I don't count the funnybike seat since it's too much a special job.

This a really big seat and I must say that the hardpart is to figure out the patterns to cut from. I have developed a tehnique that I'm gunna finepolish on next seat and put together a tutorial. Basially I use a special thin foam that you usually put under floortiling becasue it mimics leather quite well. Just glued it on the padded seatpan with a special spray glue that allows you to take the foam off without ruining itthen I put the foam onto paper and made the templates by making an outline that was just a bit wider than the foam. Putting on and aligning all the lacing holes...oboooy. That is not an easy thing to explain.

A simplified mexican roundbraid is used to keep the top and bottom together. 5mm wide, couldn't get kangaroo so I used deer wich was the only thing I could find.

The braid goes out in opposite directions fom the back of seat to folloew the lines of the carving. It was very hard to close it at the narrowest point of the seat since it meet itself in opposite direction. I wish I could have made it better but I couldn't get anymore lace from my supplier so happy that it was just enough to finish the braid.

Hope you like it and as usual I'm open to criticism!!!

Tom

[MADMAX22]

Thats freakin cool Tom. Great job.

[Storm]

Tommy this is beautiful. The best things you have done so far. This will set off the bike in which it finds itself!!!!!

[TroyS]

That's VERY nice! I really like the color combination!

Keep up the great work!

[dscott]

great seat color and design looks great

Dscott

[David]

Very nicely done.

I like this a lot.

Keep up the great work

Dave

[OdinUK]

Thats really nice, I like the braiding and colouring.

[Luke Hatley]

MY O MY.........man you have came a long way.....seat is Fantastic.

[rdb]

Spidey would be pleased!

Good job, Tom. Looks like you can add another product to the line.

[abn]

Tom, I love the color combination and the clean carving. Congrats!

[leatheroo]

great seat tom...have u started the next one yet???

[bustedlifter]

El neato finito!

[arbalet12]

Beautiful.

[McJeep]

Nice! Did you use a modeling tool to bevel the spider web? Just noticed that the carved line is very uniformly deeper than the beveling. Looks great

[TomSwede]

Thank you very very much all of you!!!!

I used a regular beveler on both sides of the web carving line. Wellcased and very carefully. The beveler easily slides on top of the opposite beveled side so gotta be careul with that.

I have no order for a new seat at the moment but thinking I might make something for demo purposes with the pans I have laying around.

We'll see. Meanwhile I post this shot of the seat onbike. It is not painted yet. It'll be black and red...I'm gunna like this bike :-)

Thanks bunches all!!

Tom

[McJeep]

Very nasssssss ;0)

[Sasquatch]

Wow Tom, I followed this one on your blog, turned out better than I had imagined. Nice work!!

[TomSwede]

Thank you McJeep and Sasquatch!!!

I've been very inconsistent on my blog post but try to keep it up.

Tom

[dscott]

thats going to look great

Dscott

[pancho47]

Thats a nice job,good clean lines.I like it

[Tnoisaw]

With that as a demo I'm sure work will be coming your way. Great job!

[TomSwede]

Thanks alot good people!!

Yeah I think I'll put up a seat for demo use aswell to attract more attention, loved making it even though getting the cutting templates to match was not very easy.

Tom