Guest Report post Posted August 29, 2007 Sometimes I hate allowing a customer to dictate the seat art.... But you just do the best you can with what the guy wants. Here's a perfect example. Dave Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freak Report post Posted August 29, 2007 I don't care what you say. I love that color and the braiding, the tooling tight and clean. I could of carved a monkeys butt and it would of looked great with all that. Nice job David !!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CitizenKate Report post Posted August 29, 2007 Looks good to me, man. I've had several customers take me down an artist path I did not want to follow, and ended up with something unexpectedly phenomenal. Kate Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TimberWolf Report post Posted August 29, 2007 SUPER nice, David!! I wish I had the patience to braid that way! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shirleyz Report post Posted August 29, 2007 Sweet Taters? Aren't they like yams? Regardless of your taste in vegetables, great seat! Like always. Shirley Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dsenette Report post Posted August 29, 2007 I could of carved a monkeys butt and it would of looked great with all that. you ain't gettin any where near my but with any tools the more i keep looking at stuff posted here (especially the bike seats)...the more glad i am that you can't really reacreate those colors in a tattoo....that particular design would look great as ink as well as the seat...but it would look best with that particular finish...i think it adds to the design alot Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JustWakinUp Report post Posted August 29, 2007 Good looking stuff David I absolutely love the braiding. Those seat pans, where are you getting them? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Report post Posted August 29, 2007 Good looking stuff David I absolutely love the braiding. Those seat pans, where are you getting them? Just... The seat pans are no secret....They are commercially available from West Eagle....made in the Phillipines I believe. At least they come packed in the Manilla Times newspaper....lol (good clue eh?). They are about the heavest gauge steel of all the available pans....they are also the pans for which Fabricator Kevin makes those nifty billet brackets with bronze bushings. The pans retail for about $60 I think. Dave Theobald Sweet Taters? Aren't they like yams?Regardless of your taste in vegetables, great seat! Like always. Shirley Yup, Sweet Taters are indeed yams. I hope he's building this bike for his girlfriend....He would get some serious teasing for a seat like that around here..... :biggrin: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bustedlifter Report post Posted August 29, 2007 Sometimes I hate allowing a customer to dictate the seat art.... But you just do the best you can with what the guy wants.Here's a perfect example. Dave I know what you mean! Sometimes you just have to wonder where people's idea's come from. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
leathernut Report post Posted August 29, 2007 hey dave seat came out great!!!nice work man.... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JohnD Report post Posted August 29, 2007 Dave, I don't see what's so bad about the art? Very well executed at any rate. Outstanding work as usual. I made a Guitar strap for a friend and he sent a drawing he wanted carved on it, a skull with a mohawk. Now, I'm not the best at drawing either, but this was awful. I asked if I could redraw it, you know so it would fit the strap better, but he said he wanted to use his drawing and to do the best I could with it. I kept putting off making the strap for weeks. My wife finally confronted me about it and said I was only putting it off cause I didnt't want people thinking that I had drawn the skull and that I should stop being a wuss and make the strap, so I did and it really came out great. The skull came out exactly as he had drawn it and he was very happy and my story has no point...sorry John Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ETW Grumpy Report post Posted August 30, 2007 Really nice work. I hope I can braid that good when I grow up. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CitizenKate Report post Posted August 30, 2007 ...and he was very happy and my story has no point...sorry :biggrin: Kate Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Report post Posted August 30, 2007 Dave, I don't see what's so bad about the art? John John, I didn't mind the art....it was the Sweet Tater thing that I didn't care for....not exactly what I would call a biker sort of nickname. I didn't mind the star and horseshoe....It is tattoo flash and not too bad.... I was able to talk him out of twin six guns (with ornate engraving) pointing at the star....phew! That would have been way too much on a seat. Still, not my favorite seat .... but I want to thank everyone for the nice words. Dave Theobald Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
