My first seat for a motorcycle

[Thor]

Title says it all. It's the first seat ever and I have to say I'm pretty pleased with it even though this isn't my forte. 

2 progress pics are in the gallery. 

The padding is far to thick for this 3.5 mm thick leather. I had to trim down the edges a bit to make it work, but in the end it all worked out. For future seats I'd be making a positive and a negative mold form to make life a bit easier, mold first, tool and dye then. The tooling looked a lot better before molding.

Having another seat in the works already, I'm happy this one is done and can go up for display.

Thanks for viewing.

BTW. critique is always welcome.

[Colt W Knight]

That's pretty bad ass

[paprhangr]

 WOW

What did you use to seal all that color in?

[Thor]

5 hours ago, Colt W Knight said:

That's pretty bad ass

Thanks colt.

1 hour ago, paprhangr said:

 WOW

What did you use to seal all that color in?

Thanks, it's dye actually and the seat got a coat of bag kote first, added some hi-liter to bring out the cuts better, added a coat of tan kote and will be sealed/conditioned with a custom made conditioner I got from leatherisfun to protect it from UV rays and water.

I'm guessing the skull will still darken naturally and should give it this gentle worn style in time. Probably not as fast as if it would be mounted to a bike, but it should work out fine.

[bikermutt07]

Looks great.

[bob21804]

Wow, that looks great.

[suzelle]

Super job! Love it. 

[Thor]

12 hours ago, bikermutt07 said:

Looks great.

 

2 hours ago, bob21804 said:

Wow, that looks great.

 

53 minutes ago, suzelle said:

Super job! Love it. 

Thank you all.

[Thefirst]

Thats awesome. The nose bone kinda makes it look like it says "Bad 2 the boner" though haha.

[Thor]

On 5/31/2016 at 4:32 PM, Thefirst said:

Thats awesome. The nose bone kinda makes it look like it says "Bad 2 the boner" though haha.

Thanks.

LOL... yeah you're right. Never even thought of that.