HOW to ....Make a Custom Seat

Hello ,
here a small tutorial for making a Custom Bike seat for this Bike .http://foto.arcor-online.net/palb/alben/57/405357/3839353136626332.jpg

The original seat wasen`t OK for me , so I tried to make something like this one .
http://foto.arcor-online.net/palb/alben/57/405357/3738636435333865.jpg

On left the original

http://foto.arcor-online.net/palb/alben/57/405357/3436653833646566.jpg

Than I made a higher backrest .
http://foto.arcor-online.net/palb/alben/57/405357/3733333735666261.jpg

For the backtail I used sheet

http://foto.arcor-online.net/palb/alben/57/405357/6539366162386136.jpg

The blue marked aera will be removed .
http://foto.arcor-online.net/palb/alben/57/405357/6466343130316463.jpg

Like this
http://foto.arcor-online.net/palb/alben/57/405357/3732306236313061.jpg

Copperwire is drilled for leathher imitation
http://foto.arcor-online.net/palb/alben/57/405357/3437643034333461.jpg

and mesh is used for the reartail
http://foto.arcor-online.net/palb/alben/57/405357/3665376534333738.jpg

The result
http://foto.arcor-online.net/palb/alben/57/405357/3165356634623937.jpg

After that another drilled Wire was laid aroud the downside of seat .
http://foto.arcor-online.net/palb/alben/57/405357/6664643863353963.jpg

http://foto.arcor-online.net/palb/alben/57/405357/6663643738656566.jpg

a little black paint on the rear to bring depht in the mesh
http://foto.arcor-online.net/palb/alben/57/405357/6334323463343163.jpg

With paint in lether
http://foto.arcor-online.net/palb/alben/57/405357/3338383138303732.jpg

http://foto.arcor-online.net/palb/alben/57/405357/3031626634626264.jpg

http://foto.arcor-online.net/palb/alben/57/405357/3335633466663264.jpg

and finished is the custom Seat .
Thats my Result ,I hope you enjoy it
Regards Lutz

Hi Lutz,

Pretty impressive result... just the paint should be semi-gloss instead of flat (in my opinion).

regards,
Dan

Very nice work!

Hey!! Nice result!! well done

I'm waiting for the WIP of this bike :grinyes:

Hi All

THX for comments
itried out semicloss paint for this result .
http://foto.arcor-online.net/palb/alben/57/405357/3362656363316264.jpg

http://foto.arcor-online.net/palb/alben/57/405357/3535326330313939.jpg

http://foto.arcor-online.net/palb/alben/57/405357/3437353535643462.jpg

Regards Lutz

Hi;
here some more seats
the webbing on back was made by antiflyweb for windows .
http://foto.arcor-online.net/palb/alben/57/405357/1152_3432636232653432.jpg

setting with cristal Clear
http://foto.arcor-online.net/palb/alben/57/405357/3631633130323163.jpg


painted in acrylic burnt siena and shadeg with black .

http://foto.arcor-online.net/palb/alben/57/405357/6238346237313066.jpg

http://foto.arcor-online.net/palb/alben/57/405357/6239393962646166.jpg
http://foto.arcor-online.net/palb/alben/57/405357/3336313839633866.jpg

http://foto.arcor-online.net/palb/alben/57/405357/3565316633323638.jpg

Nice to hear your comments
Lutz

Your seats look very nice!!!!!!:grinyes:
I'll liked to read the how to.
I can't wait to see the rest of the bike:iceslolan

Denman

Nice work. I like this little extra effort put into a build!
/Joel

The semi-gloss paint looks much more realistic than the matt. It looks almost like real leather.

Lutz, that is a very impressive result! Thanks for sharing the technique!