LuckyPabst
New Member
Here are a few shots of my first attempt at working with fiberglass... and building a seat for my RD400.
There's two layers of 7.5oz cloth with a few pieces of 3mm foam stuff in between for rigidity. I'm hooked on this fiberglass work! Hopefully I can come up with a few more things to mold.
On the left is the solid wood plug. My tip here is to use a proper catalyzed paint when finishing the plug. Rustoleum still shrinks, even a month after application. Paint issues set me back two months in this project. The mold came out well... pay attention to working the cloth/mat material down into the corners. I had a few air pockets that opened up when I was finishing the mold surface. The mold has alternating layers of mat (forget the weight) and 10oz cloth, for a total of 6 layers over tooling gel coat.
All built on a Daytona Special frame, sufficiently vandalized to not ever be returned to stock... The seat is rough trimmed and in place to get a visual check on things. Taillights will be a pair of rear turn signal lenses used on many early-70s Yamaha bikes.
Chris
There's two layers of 7.5oz cloth with a few pieces of 3mm foam stuff in between for rigidity. I'm hooked on this fiberglass work! Hopefully I can come up with a few more things to mold.
On the left is the solid wood plug. My tip here is to use a proper catalyzed paint when finishing the plug. Rustoleum still shrinks, even a month after application. Paint issues set me back two months in this project. The mold came out well... pay attention to working the cloth/mat material down into the corners. I had a few air pockets that opened up when I was finishing the mold surface. The mold has alternating layers of mat (forget the weight) and 10oz cloth, for a total of 6 layers over tooling gel coat.
All built on a Daytona Special frame, sufficiently vandalized to not ever be returned to stock... The seat is rough trimmed and in place to get a visual check on things. Taillights will be a pair of rear turn signal lenses used on many early-70s Yamaha bikes.
Chris
i started building my own cafe seat but im always open to new ones lol
