Topic: Salt City Cafe 1971 cb750

[saltcitycafe]

Nice work,  will you be covering the whole thing and how did you secure the front?

I will be making the shape i want totally out of foam and then covering in leather. To secure the front I have been considering a few options but haven't decided just yet. I will show it when I do.

[saltcitycafe]

From ogden following.

Nice to see another Utahn and thanks

[saltcitycafe]

Ok so finally got back to working on the seat.  I got the foam all on it and sculpted it. Man what a mess and a lot of work.


These are the tabs I came up with to mount the seat at the front.



Carved out a spot for the hump in the front of the tank


Gave it some paint


Heavy duty contact cement and some tape and weight did the trick.



Now its time to get busy carving.





Here is the finished product ready for some leather.


A few tips.
Get an electric carving knife makes quick work of big cuts.

Make sure you stay level with those cuts. Mine wandered in one place and I had to put in a repair.

Get close with the knife but finish with a grinder.  You can really shape and fine tune with the grinder.

Seats like this cost like $200 or more.

Mine was free 99. Made from stuff we had laying around and some time.

One thing I am learning from all this is I have never done any of it. But iI don't let it stop me I just jump in and give it hell. I love it

[PPG9944]

I built a seat from scratch.  My tip to you is dont wear a fleece while cutting foam with that electric knife.  The fleece is like velcro to the little bits haha.  Lookin good.