Leather Craft - Mr. "Q"s lacing hell...

Got to go hunting for another kangaroo as I´m getting empty of lacing..

Leather Craft - La Pera

This is a modified La Pera leather seat without motive I did for a chopper two or three years ago.. the new owner wanted black on the sides so it didn´t look so "massive".. so I recolored it and everyone is happy :-) It used to be all brown.. I like the way it´s been worn over the last years..

Leather Craft - Mr. "Q"s La Pera update..

The coloring of the seat is done.. I think the actual leather piece looks better than the photo was able to retrieve..

Leather Craft - Seat for Mr. "Q" update..

More or less finished with the tooling and ready for some dye..

Leather Craft - The "Q" leather seat..

Working on another La Pera seat for a custom chopper.. The motive is a family  shield from the 17th century for the Quinsgaard family. Here is the motive cut out with the swivel knife before the tooling starts...

Lacing together the La Pera seat..

The La Pera seat is being laced together and will be all finished in a few days..

Upholstery - BeastCycles

Finished a new leather seat for Roy Hamren and his custom BeastCycles V-Rods. Check out his wicked bikes here.

The "Office"

Finally moved in all my stuff and tools to my new "office" today and will use the rest of the weekend to make a nice working space and the rest of the easter will be work work work... got a lot of stuff to finish, but I´m on track and two more seats will be finished within next week :-)

Vinyl - Tuck & Roll

Did my very first attempt at "Tuck & Roll" type of thing.. this little "pillow" is pretty useless, but with a little training I will try to make these old skool bobber seats with flake vinyl too.. maybe :-) Just need another sewing machine for that kind of work.. the expenses never stop..

Leather Craft - La Pera update

Templates are done, a little more coloring is finished.. some detail work on the motive and soon ready to be stitched together..

Leather Craft - Collar

I can´t make all these leather things without making something for my dog Zara too.. so I finally made her a one of a kind collar with vintage colored brass rivets. If interested I can make you one for about $100 plus shipping.

Leather Craft - Wallets/Credit Card Holders

Enough fooling around for a while and back to the seats..

Leather Craft - Wallets/Credit Card Holders

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

Leather Craft - Wallets/Credit card Holders

When making leather seats I get a lot of leftover leather pieces which I can make small one of a kind wallets or credit card holders with and if you want a special motive, name or design feel free to send me an email, and we can see what we come up with.. Interested in any of the ones abowe, send me an offer.. please note I´m in Norway so I have to add shipping to the price, but it shouldn´t be much I guess.. (oh, I forgot to write "Sucks" after Love..)

T-shirts... (these are not for sale)

Long before (at least 8 - 9 years ago) I started to work with pinstriping, leather craft, gold leaf and all this motorcycle stuff I actually made a T-Shirt with a 276 logo at an art school and I think I had a dream of building bikes.. 276 Custom Choppers. If any interest, I´m thinking of making some 276ccm T-shirts for sale.. not to earn anything, but to spread the word with a cool logo :-)

The logo was made out of a Honda CB 750, making it hard tail and added a Harley Rapido gas tank in Photoshop.. even then I wanted this Rapido gas tank badly, and only a month ago I actually got it to use for my own custom build.. TTT

This will not be the design if I make new T-shirts tho..

Pinstriping & Gold Leaf - Åsmunds chopper

Åsmunds chopper which I pinstriped and gold leafed is starting to look like a real HotRod bike.. Kristian Sabel at KS Lakk painted the bike and flaked the flames.

Leather Craft - La Pera update

Getting closer.. but some work left :-)

Nr. 600 on Facebook?

Leather Craft - La Pera update

La Pera - Update..

A little update on the La Pera solo seat I´m working on..

Leather Craft - Solo Seat

And it´s all finished and will be shipped tomorrow to the new owner :-)

Gold leaf & Pinstriping

Leather Craft - Remaking a La Pera seat..

Started the process of tooling and remaking making a La Pera solo seat with an acanthus motive..

T-shirt design for Lowbrows MC

A T-shirt design for Lowbrows MC. The t-shirts will only be for members and not for sale.. The design is inspired by David Lozeau´s amazing and original art and posted and printed with his permission, so thanks a lot David! :-) Check out his awesome work here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dlozeau/

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?

Pinstriping - Gas tank & Widetire Fender

Done with the Gas tank & Widetire back Fender..

Scanbike - Issue 1, 2012

My work is featured in yet another biker magazine.. this time it´s the Scandinavian magazine named ScanBike, issue 1, 2012. There is a 7 pages article, written by Atle and photos by Per Heimly about the Motörhead/Victory bikes that I made leather seats for.