Leather Craft - Motörhead / Victory Rewaco

From the unveiling of the new Motörhead signature model with Phil Campbell, by Victory motorcycles and their new trike cruiser.. Art paint by Terje Aspmo and custom leather seat by me.. :-)

Leather Craft - "Little" Bastard

A leather solo seat I´m working on for the blue flaked "Little" Bastard Sportster bobber i gilded...

Leather Craft - Tommy´s chopper..

A leather seat for Tommy T´s chopper, built by CBP, Norway.

Leather Craft - Tank bib..

Rolf Arilds gas tank bib. (not a very good picture, but the only one I got)

Leather Craft - Harley Tank Bib..

A hand tooled skull tank bib for Rolf Arild´s Harley..

New items in the store..

Made several new credit card holders and added some new leather craft items at the store: http://276ccm.bigcartel.com/

Leather Craft - Wallets/Credit Card Holders

Even more credit cards holders in progress.. Will be put up for sale when done.. stay tuned :-)

Airbrush - Skull

A while ago I airbrushed this skull on the wall at Knut Olavs garage, but after the garage was relocated, he cut out the piece from the wall and placed it at his kitchen at home instead. it´s nice to see when my work is valued that way.. :-)

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...

Pinstriping - Skull..

Pinstriped a Harley Davidson Sportster 883R gas tank for a friend, after I had her bike for a month while she was in USA last summer, as a thanks for the loan.. even tho, we planned a pinstriping at a biker pary at Høyangbjørn MC a couple of years ago.. the design has changed many times since then.. This was the result I finished a couple of days ago. I didn´t plan to when I did a sketch for this motive, but it kind of looks a litle like Darth Vader from Star Wars..

Pinstriping - Brush Test

Just testing some of the new brushes I bought a while ago.. The Tidwells and Mac Series 30 Dagger brush on one of my old cigar boxes.. Nothing serious and just for fun..

Orgasmatron (Finished Bike)

The finished result of the bike I made the Motorhead Skull seat for.. Check out more pictures at the builders page: http://custombikesbonna.blogspot.com/

More Leather Seats..

Leatherwork - My bathroom floor is now working as a workingspace, finishing some leather seats to Reckless MC´s 10th anniversary party this weekend.. Also working on yet another skull seat..

Leather - Solo Seat (in progress)

Waiting for some "chemicals" I have ordered to finish this bobber solo seat up, so within a couple of weeks I´ll be able to add the last finish.. stay tuned! In the mean time I´m testing some color techniques I will use for my next seat. It´ll look all worned out, but still very shiny..

Leather - Solo Seat No. 1. (Update)

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

Finished leather seat - Motorhead skull

Started on a new leather seat for a friends chopper with the Motorhead skull motive.. You can see more pictures of the bike and other custom motorcycle projects at Custom Bikes Bønna.. The top picture is of the finished result.. it just need to be boltet to the seat pan.

Airbrush Skull - Flickr

Airbrush - Wallpainting

Started to airbrush a skull on the wall to the new Redneck Bikes garage wall.. there will be a lot more bad skulls to come pretty soon.. stay tuned for more..

Painting - Belt Cover

Painted a belt cover for a friends custom chopper. It was originally a Jesse James cover, but the JJ motive was grinded down... The credit for the original design should go to: David Lozeau

Airbrush - Gas Tank & Fender

Designed the pattern and airbrushed a skull on a custom chopper gas tank and fender for Redneck Bikes Norway.. Only the gas tank is cleared so far and there will be a pinstripe around the edges between black and white...