Past few weeks were busy sourcing and cleaning up a seat pan, and getting a custom seat made at Corbin which is about 1.5hrs away from me.
https://www.corbin.com/ridein/index.shtml
You can tell which is the good seat pan, and which is the lost cause.
Metal Prep, then POR15 clear base coat, and then Duplicolor top-coat.
I won the prize for the oldest-foam of the year. After we discussed what I was looking for, the basic parameters of the seat, it took less than an hour to block out the basic seat shape which we refined from there. Tweaked the height, the position of the rear butt-stop, the scoop-out of the seat base and how the base transitioned into the sides. The foam was then completely taped up with masking tape, and we marked out a design (based on a design I liked). Colors, textures, stitching, piping, bottom turn, logo stitching. It was really a comprehensive process. We broke for lunch, and when I came back, viola - seat...
