Salt City Cafe Build 1971 CB750 - Its Finally Done!

[SaltCityCafe]

Re: Salt City Cafe Build 1970 CB750

Ok so finally got back to working on the seat. I got the foam all on it and sculpted it. Man what a mess and a lot of work.


These are the tabs I came up with to mount the seat at the front.

Carved out a spot for the hump in the front of the tank

Gave it some paint

Heavy duty contact cement and some tape and weight did the trick.

Now its time to get busy carving.

Here is the finished product ready for some leather.

A few tips.
Get an electric carving knife makes quick work of big cuts.

Make sure you stay level with those cuts. Mine wandered in one place and I had to put in a repair.

Get close with the knife but finish with a grinder. You can really shape and fine tune with the grinder.

Seats like this cost like $200 or more.

Mine was free 99. Made from stuff we had laying around and some time.

One thing I am learning from all this is I have never done any of it. But iI don't let it stop me I just jump in and give it hell. I love it

 

[ShaggyPit]

Re: Salt City Cafe Build 1970 CB750

Seat looks great! cant wait to do this myself, ill be following similar techniques as you, always nice to see someone doing something relatively similar...gives that extra little confidence, along with the beer.

you mentioned you built this all from what you had laying around at your house...what did you snake the foam from? What type of foam is it?

Cheers

 

[Quintin Snell]

Re: Salt City Cafe Build 1970 CB750

I'm really enjoying your build, book marked! Thanks for posting. I can't wait to get busy with mine

 

[SaltCityCafe]

Re: Salt City Cafe Build 1970 CB750

Seat looks great! cant wait to do this myself, ill be following similar techniques as you, always nice to see someone doing something relatively similar...gives that extra little confidence, along with the beer.

you mentioned you built this all from what you had laying around at your house...what did you snake the foam from? What type of foam is it?

Cheers

Hey shaggy thanks!

The foam is a dense foam from what I think were boat seats or rv seats at one time. I just stripped em down and cut up the foam as I needed it

 

[Daeouse]

Re: Salt City Cafe Build 1970 CB750

Amazing work so far! I look forward to updates!

 

[PLAZACYCLEJOSH]

Re: Salt City Cafe Build 1970 CB750

Looking great man

 

[SaltCityCafe]

Re: Salt City Cafe Build 1970 CB750

Ok well I apologize that I haven't updated really at all since like February but lets just say a lot of life got in the way.

Anyway I didn't leave much out really, a lot of making little brackets and wiring and assembly but that's not that interesting.

I did all the work including the paint, except for the leather.

But now its all done and I had my cousin do some fancy pictures for me.

Introducing Ruby:

 

[Bigsam302]

Re: Salt City Cafe Build 1970 CB750

Looks great!

 

[SaltCityCafe]

Man guess I was gone to long no one cares anymore LOL

 

[yozzer74]

That looks wicked mate .