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scary_leary

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£10 Home Made.. DB Turbo Suede Seat
« on: May 23, 2008, 09:47 PM »

I sold my nos kashi 5gold suede seat, coz i wanted a crack at making my own.
So with the 5gold money banked i bought a rough Kashi MX seat for £2.
Bought a suede handbag off ecrotch for £2, carpet fitters glue £2.70 and £3 for the decals.


Stick a seatpost on and clamp in a vice.

Take your packaging foam, spray with glue..spray top of seat and press together.

Stretch over...

and trim

Same process with the suede..

Another view.

Underseat shot

Suede trimmed

Decals added to finish.



Offline lazychubs

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Re: £10 Home Made.. DB Turbo Suede Seat
« Reply #1 on: May 23, 2008, 10:12 PM »
looks like a northern boy with small hands made that lol
looks ok but i have just drunk a lot os stella's  :daumenhoch:

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Re: £10 Home Made.. DB Turbo Suede Seat
« Reply #2 on: May 23, 2008, 10:32 PM »
You know what they say chubs.. small hands smallll, err

anyway i'd give it a 7/10, it needs tweaking a little bit..
but the good thing with the glue is you can pull it back and then re-do it.

should be a solid 8/10 before it goes on  :daumenhoch:

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Re: £10 Home Made.. DB Turbo Suede Seat
« Reply #3 on: May 23, 2008, 10:36 PM »
 small hands smaller feet  ???  lol
cool show when done then
ya got more time than me mate   :LolLolLolLol:

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Re: £10 Home Made.. DB Turbo Suede Seat
« Reply #4 on: May 23, 2008, 10:37 PM »
Looks OK to me(had no beer :'() I have a pice of brown suede from a boot, was going to try same thing :) thanks for the tips, wasn't going to use foam.

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Re: £10 Home Made.. DB Turbo Suede Seat
« Reply #5 on: May 23, 2008, 10:59 PM »
You'd have got more use with the handbag lovee  :-*

what a waste  ::)

Hey puffter pants are packing make up bag and coming Crewe this Sunday ?  ???

I need to check your ride out  sometime very soon  :)

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Re: £10 Home Made.. DB Turbo Suede Seat
« Reply #6 on: May 23, 2008, 11:36 PM »
Well before i cut it up, i matched it up to some cute shoes and worked pole lane..
didnt even get a nibble  :(

no ive got orders this weekend.. she's meeting her mates at the caribbean carnival in preston
but i will do the rest of the meets..

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Re: £10 Home Made.. DB Turbo Suede Seat
« Reply #7 on: May 24, 2008, 03:54 AM »
Good job lee  :daumenhoch:

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Re: £10 Home Made.. DB Turbo Suede Seat
« Reply #8 on: May 24, 2008, 10:28 AM »


well done lee, fancy doing another  ;)

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Re: £10 Home Made.. DB Turbo Suede Seat
« Reply #9 on: May 24, 2008, 10:33 AM »

Good effort. Keep us posted with the tweaks. I'm all for restoration rather than buying NOS off the shelf  :daumenhoch:

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Re: £10 Home Made.. DB Turbo Suede Seat
« Reply #10 on: May 24, 2008, 10:49 AM »
nice work  :daumenhoch:
cheers Kev
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Re: £10 Home Made.. DB Turbo Suede Seat
« Reply #11 on: May 24, 2008, 12:18 PM »
looking good lee, getting that suede tight looks difficult. got more foam if you want it ;)
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Re: £10 Home Made.. DB Turbo Suede Seat
« Reply #12 on: May 24, 2008, 12:23 PM »
Whens it going on ebay then Lee  :2gunsfiring_v1: 

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Re: £10 Home Made.. DB Turbo Suede Seat
« Reply #13 on: May 24, 2008, 05:40 PM »
I'm about to do this with a kashi aero - do you really need the foam though? looks to me like it loses too much of its shape when applied. I was going to filler the two holes quick and apply the suede direct.

Also - how permanent is that adhesive? sticky enough?

scary_leary

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Re: £10 Home Made.. DB Turbo Suede Seat
« Reply #14 on: May 24, 2008, 05:59 PM »
Yeah it needs the foam as the originals use it.

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Re: £10 Home Made.. DB Turbo Suede Seat
« Reply #15 on: May 24, 2008, 06:31 PM »
mm sober now but still not sure looks a ta wrinkly lol
can you not steam it like on american hot rod do lol

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Re: £10 Home Made.. DB Turbo Suede Seat
« Reply #16 on: May 25, 2008, 08:29 PM »
Get my wife to wash it, that will shrink the wrinkles out ;D

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Re: £10 Home Made.. DB Turbo Suede Seat
« Reply #17 on: June 03, 2008, 06:53 PM »

Ok done a few tweaks..  the rear and the nose.
much better  :daumenhoch:
Got some fake suede coming.. so gonna do another.. best one goes on other up for grabs.



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« Reply #18 on: June 03, 2008, 06:58 PM »
looks alot better there lee

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Re: £10 Home Made.. DB Turbo Suede Seat
« Reply #19 on: June 05, 2008, 01:04 PM »
That's looking real good, i'll take one off you if you do another

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« Reply #20 on: June 05, 2008, 05:34 PM »
it's got more hair than you ;D
ding dong

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Re: £10 Home Made.. DB Turbo Suede Seat
« Reply #21 on: June 05, 2008, 10:45 PM »
Aditup used to do these to Kashi Aero's he used the same foam stuff & used to get some Suede from somewhere quite cheap  ??? He done one for me  :)

Looks very good  :daumenhoch:

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