Thanks Kustom Kreator!!!

[Rat Rod]

John traded me this sweet Raleigh seat with some wicked grooves molded into the vinyl for a Rat Rod Bikes shirt. Got busy with some Testors white and some Acetone and VUALAH!...I've got a tricked out rat saddle. The whole thing took me 15 minutes. Thanks again John!

Here's the before shot...

John even bead blasted the frame and painted it before he sent it.

 

[Markm]

WOW!! Right On!!

 

[TexasXXX]

Amazing what a little time and detailing can do. Great seat

 

[Rat Rod]

Thanks!

Just need to paint over the Raleigh logo...even though I love the font.

 

[gravediggerjason]

man you can do magic when it comes to cleaning stuff up .. i love that saddle

 

[aka_locojoe]

Nice job. What was the purpose of the acetone?

 

[Rat Rod]

Nice job. What was the purpose of the acetone?

Hey Randy,

I started to paint the grooves in the seat in with the white Testors paint and when I did...the grooves filled in too fast and paint started getting all on the edges and up on the raised portions on the seat. At that point I thought...CRUD!!! I just ruind my new seat! I decided to try wiping off what I had just painted with some acetone since I didn't have any thinner around. When I wiped across the seat with a cloth and the acetone it only wiped off the paint that had gotten on the edges and not the paint down in the grooves....cool! I went ahead and painted the rest of the grooves...quite speedily and messy like and then just wiped the whole seat surface with acetone and it cleaned right up.

So the lines look cool now, but not because of my steady hand or my mad painting skillz....HA HA!!!

 

[xddorox]

Nice work RatRod, very "groovy" baby, yeah! 8)

 

[HotRod Charlie]

Nice work on the seat. It looks cool.

Charlie

 

[Easy Skywalker]

Yummy! VEry tasty!

 

[Manny Moons]

wow! I was just about to say " you have awesome painting skillzz!"... Pretty cool how only wiping down the seat with acetone gave you that result. From the pics, the lines look perfect and straight. Very good idea with the seat.

 

[Clothespin n]

Great Job..
it looks awesome..

Kev.

 

[tartosuc]

very nice result! also a great idea to paint the seat!

 

[jon]

you know you just started a new fad, were going to see alot of cool seats now... "ya know the saying about flattery" dig the seat.

 

[Kustom Kreator]

Awesome job painting between the lines! LOL Looks really good, glad you like the seat........

 

[Firewalker]

thats great! you see, you need not have to recover a seat every time.....what you did here is great and goes well with the bike( not to mention coast effective!!!). I did the same thing to a flamed Felt seat.