Leather Craft - Dragon seat update..

Leather Craft - La Linea

The La Linea seat is done. Seat pan is from Biltwell.

La Pera Leather Seat - Sketch

Sketching some ideas directly on a La Pera leather solo seat for a Harley softail I´m going to start making in heavy veg. tanned leather with lacing.. Finally found the design I wanted, waking up 03 AM this "morning" with a revelation.. and no point to waste time by sleeping.. I think/hope that this might be nice.. The client haven´t seen it yet, but.. :-) It´ll be a little more detailed tho and the line in the middle will be filled with a systematic pattern, hard to explain.. What you think so far?

Victory Motorcycles / Motörhead - Leather Solo Seats

About a month ago or so, I was contacted by CBP (Custom Bike Parts) in Skien and asked if I was able to, and wanted to make four custom solo seats with motive in leather, in only one month!! Usually I say I want at least three weeks to make one seat (of course I don´t work all the time then, but with an upholstery job beside and other projects as well, things take time).

This job was for Victory Motorcycles which planned four Motörhead signature models customized by CBP, painted by Terje Aspmo and seats by me if I wanted, so I just had to say yes! No doubt, even tho I had no idea how much time this should take... anyway, Motörhaed was coming to Norway, December 5th. so it was better to start focus on how to pull this job off!

I had to make templates for seven parts which had to fit perfectly on each seat, and then they had to be laced together. Lacing is kind of sewing by hand, only twice as far to get the cross stitches with a leather strap. Also three of the seats had to be dyed black with the motive in vintage brown, which takes time...

I´m not complaining, just forgot how much time these things take, so I worked almost 24/7 for a month, and was finished Monday morning Novembre 28th at 05:30 AM. A couple of houres before the promised delivery!

They where picked up by a courier early the next morning, and I was a little concerned about how they would fit. Not that I thought I had done anything wrong, but when things have to be perfect, and without an Victory 8 Ball model available to check the fitting it´s a little scary with no time to make changes. Later that day, I got a message that the seats was awesome and the colors was perfect with the custom paint.

Yesterday I was at Hard Rock Cafe in Oslo for the after party, after the Motörhead concert and the bikes are unveiled with a press release, and it seems like everyone is satisfied!

Below you´ll see some photos of the process of making these Motörhead skull seats, if you aren´t exhausted and have moved on...

Leather - Solo Seat in Progress

Added some contrast color..

A little further...

A little further.. Momento Mori.. don´t mix it up with the famous Latif phrase Memento Mori (remember you should die)

The Bullet Bobber Leather Seat..

Started to make the leather solo seat for the Bullet Bobber.. Making hundreds of holes for the stitches, but still got pretty sore hands of sewing the shit together.. all worth it if the owner gets happy about the result.. The bike will be shown at Oslo Motor Show in the end of the month..

Leather & Gold..

Started the process to add gold leaf to the "no virgin" leather seat..

New Leather Seat - Dirty Bastard

Leather Seat Progress - A new leather seat in progress without a motive this time.. Added some leather dye, trying to make it look a little old and worn.. Decided to go with dyed dark brown licing to make it look as old as possible..

Custom Made Seat Pans

I designed some seat pans and my good friend "Bønna" from CBB built them and did the awesome brass finish for me.. They will be shipped any day now and I can´t wait start working and make som new custom leather seats..

Leather - Dirty Bastard.. Solo Seat

Just started on yet another motorcycle leather seat with "Dirty Bastard" as a working title, which explanes a little bit of the forthcomming look.. I think.. I hope.. I guess.. Time will show..

Leather - Solo Seat No Virgin (in progress)

Scetched Virgin Mary and added the text "No Virgin", then transfered the design over to what is going to be the top of the leather solo seat.. I will add some more design to it later and try a technique which I have never seen on a motorcycle seat before (maybe there is a reason for that, heh..), but so far I´m just tooling the no longer virgin, Mary..

Leather - Solo Seat No. 1. (Update)

A little update on the back side of the leather solo seat No. 1...

Leather - Solo Seat No 1. (in progress)

Just started on a new custom motorcycle solo seat in leather which will be one in a series of 5 - 6 seats I will finish and show off at my own stand at Reckless MC´s 10th Anniversary party 20th. to 22nd. of August, so I have a lot of work to do.. Check back for updates.. The seat pans for some of the seats on this project are bought on eBay from sma1200 Thanks for the quick service and shipping!

Leather - Solo Seat

Maybe not the most exiting thing, but a very good experience.. it´s the first time I have made a plain solo seat and it´s very different to work with "thin" leather and make it as smooth as possible than the natural leather for tooling.. at least I managed to avoid the folds that usually comes on tight curves..