Western Style Sissy Bar Bag

[azrider]

This is awesome. I am getting ready to do some leather for my bike and will be doing all wester styled, and looks like I will be using Saddle Tan. (I have been trying out other colors to see what I wanted.) What did you use to seal the leather in case it gets rained on or anything?

[Ian]

This is awesome. I am getting ready to do some leather for my bike and will be doing all wester styled, and looks like I will be using Saddle Tan. (I have been trying out other colors to see what I wanted.) What did you use to seal the leather in case it gets rained on or anything?

Thanks. It has two coats of Bag Kote and lots of Aussie

[McJeep]

.Jeep, that's 8 oz

Sooooooo I'm hopin' ya don't mind if I plageurize you a bit with that style? The way you mounted the front is just plain sexy :0)

Just finished mocking up one for my wife - on to template stage :0)

[Ian]

Sooooooo I'm hopin' ya don't mind if I plageurize you a bit with that style? The way you mounted the front is just plain sexy :0)

Just finished mocking up one for my wife - on to template stage :0)

You're not plageurizing at all. I wish I could say I invented something, but sadly that's not the case. Let me know if I can be of any help when you start putting your bag together.

Ian

[McJeep]

Will do Thanks :0)

[McJeep]

Did a ruff mock up this aft to get shape and dimensions figured out and came up with the following

Here's a shot of her bags for reference to the back angle

And a shot of her backrest for angle reference

And the ruff mock up in recycled ceral boxes LOL

The bag is 6" across the back - 4 3/4 deep - 7 1/2 vertical height

My question to you fine folks is should I leave it boxed off at the back? Or remock it with the back angled down and in (shown with the black sharpie line) to maintain the line of the sissy bar and maybe pick up on an opposing angle with the saddle bags

As it is a very small sissy bar (the top of the bag is within 1/2" of the top of sissy already) I'm thinking that the squared off bag would look too much like we bolted a milk crate to the back of the bike LOL

Opinions please and thank u :0)

[Ian]

If you just made it flat across the bottom, with sides an even width, it wouldn't sit straight, but that wouldn't look bad

Here's a picture of a luggage bag I did for a V-Rod - not the same kind of bag of course, but it also had to angle to fit the sissy bar - what a pain to sew

My opinion - make the bag straight and let it sit at an angle rather than have one side angled

Edited January 19, 2009 by Ian