Wood Cafe Seat Build Video!
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wallis222
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fantastic job man, looks beautiful.
i've been wanting to do the same sort of thing for a few months now - your thread is actually the reason why i stumbled across this forum. i was searching around for wood seats on the internet and this came up.
i have no experience working with metal, but my wood working skills are good. its nice to see someone else has done it and not been laughed at. i'm thinking about chambering the seat in a sort of "stair" formation and then filling in the rest with bondo to save some weight. i've also toyed with the idea of using ebony as the base of the seat (above the seat pan) and clear coating that.
anyhow, great work and a cool little unique touch!!!
i'll post a response to this thread if i ever get around to this seat thing. probably sometime when the weather gets nice again.
i've been wanting to do the same sort of thing for a few months now - your thread is actually the reason why i stumbled across this forum. i was searching around for wood seats on the internet and this came up.
i have no experience working with metal, but my wood working skills are good. its nice to see someone else has done it and not been laughed at. i'm thinking about chambering the seat in a sort of "stair" formation and then filling in the rest with bondo to save some weight. i've also toyed with the idea of using ebony as the base of the seat (above the seat pan) and clear coating that.
anyhow, great work and a cool little unique touch!!!
i'll post a response to this thread if i ever get around to this seat thing. probably sometime when the weather gets nice again.
750k8kev
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wallis222 said:
Thanks a lot Wallis! That's cool how you found the forum, it's very easy to spend hours upon reading posts on here...great forum.
The stair cowling sounds like a great idea. An ebony seat pan would look cool as shit. I wanted to have some exposed wood somewhere on the seat, but didn't know how or where to blend it with the paint. I never thought of putting a piece under the seat cushion, I think that's what you mean.
My Dad actually first had mentioned a stair idea like that.. My original design was to have fins make up the back like my final design, but cut them as 1 inch arches and make sort of a storage space inside the cowling. Then a could drape over fiberglass to allow a full bondo surface. I was going to have a door with a latch that could open up from underneath. It was a good idea, but was so fucking involved it was stressing me out and I ended up bagging the whole concept. Anyway, I can't wait to see what you come up with!
750k8kev
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stroker93 said:
Thanks! The foam is a 2 part 8lb. I attempted the spray foam from HD first, but quickly realized it was not what I had in mind. It does not set hard enough for the strength I wanted. US Composites is the company I got it from. http://uscomposites.com/foam.html. pretty cool stuff. Never built a boat before, but it's on my bucket list for sure.
