Will My Work Hold Up?

[Murf]

I was getting dressed at work the other day and a co-worker saw the tooled wallet i had made for myself sitting on a bench. He proceeded to ask me about making a seat for his custom "Honda-Davidson"

bobber. I am in the process of templating a seat pan and construction scheme for my own custom made seat for the harley ive been building and my dads harley. Ive been doing leatherwork for about 5 months and

im concerned about my ability to produce a safe water resistant seat that will hold up to the test of a guy who rides as much as my co-worker. We havent discussed if he wants lacing, rivets, or sewn, but as it stands

i am not very good with lace and i dont own a sewing machine (my hand sewing looks pretty good though) but his seat is ragged and i dont have to do any work on the pan or the foam. Im positive my tooling can

hold up to almost any treatment, my shop stool and wallet still look the way they did the day i made them after a lot of hours being crushed by my butt, and my wallet chain. Will resolene make it stand up to heavy

rain sitting in the parking lot? will the resolene make the seat slick and thus unsafe if the rider has to make quick maneuvers in traffic? As it stands i told him im not producing any seats until next summer or fall until i

work these concepts out in my head and on my own bike, but then i started to think, why should i go into this blindly and risk my own safety and potentially ruin several hours of work when i can just ask people who

make great high quality seats.

Thanks, Murf

P.S. Im itching like crazy to post pictures of my bike, but its not finished. ive done all the work myself and i have almost no experience building motorcycles but its turning out AWESOME!

Edited August 22, 2013 by Murf

[mlapaglia]

Use Snow Seal to make it water proof. That will hold up.

[jayjay]

I agree with Mlapaglia I use SNO SEAL on all my outdoor leather it works great. I instruct my customers to apply once a year.