Renovation of vintage Mundialita saddle

Hi I bought '83 Motobecane Jubilee Sport racer and I've start renovation from saddle at it was not in perfect shape....

So here are some step by step photo-story.

First picture will be not so beautiful but that was what i have to start with.

Put the pics directly in the thread

I would suggest not using Dropbox and resize the pictures to the specified size and uploading using filadministrasjon

Your links must have .jpeg endings inside of the [img] [/img] tags. (or equivalent filetype).



It hasn't been working for a while, atleast not using chrome.

It hasn't worked for me since I got a macbook 5-6 years ago.

Thank you VEHE TinyPic.com works great.

Hope admin will delete previous posts

Done

And just one more for comparison:

Impressive skills, just like your other threads.

Could you write a little bit about the steps involved?

Sure,

1. Replacement of used foam with old mouse pad then final trim by Dremel with sand paper.
2. Leather from old jacket. Few minutes in water, then it become to be much more flexible. After hour of stretching and some stroke I got final, smooth shape. Then too handle this shape it was saw by hand and needle to keep the shape till it dry (over night)
3. Next day I've removed temporary thread and with use of 3M 77 (glue in spray) I've finalize the leather underneath.
4. I've found some Mundialita text picture and I've convert it to vector format (used for Electronic Cutting Tool. Then print on Oracal film used for masking paintjob.
5. Gold/brown painted by airbrush.
6. Aluminium parts under saddle polished with sandpaper and polishing paste.

Pretty much thats all

Regards

Thomas

And this is the glue I've used:

I love the use of the mousepad

I just hope my Dad wodn't mind another life of his leather vest

Thanks

Thomas

Very nice!

Tank you.

And the saddle have a company now, same leather handlebar:

Is that leather from the same vest?
Looks really good.

Its great to see some real craftsmanship, and not just bolting together new parts Really good stitching on the handlebar!

Thanks a lot.

Yes I've used same vest for saddle and handlebars:)

This is great feeling to recover old, forgotten bike too new shiny look. So far 60 hours of my work and still is not ready but very close

Jepp, utrolig velgjort. Er hullene laget med maskin og så håndsydd eller er selv hullene håndpunsjet? Med tanke på detaljkvaliteten ellers så har jeg ingen grunn til å tro annet enn at det er det siste som er tilfellet.

This is the way how you need to prepere edge of the leather on the sewing machine, then hand work gives you final result.

Aha, nice!

Yes, very nice!