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Originally Posted by whoa
Hows it been to work with so far?
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fun!
I made a cowl tonight too Steve. Man, we must be on the same wavelength or something. I was trying to decide whether to make a seat with a cowl, or just a lean mean seat sans cowl. I have (had) a sportster seat in mint condition. I wanted to see how the pad fit on my new pan so I removed the cover and the pad from the sporty pan. Well, once I laid the foam on my new seatpan I thought it would be a good shape for a cowl, so I covered the foam in blue tape and laid down 1 layer of the mesh stuff, 1 layer of the mat, and another layer of the mesh. Using the blow dryer between layers I was able to do all 3 layers in under an hour, then I took it inside and stuck it in the oven on low for about 10 minutes and it cured up nicely!
here's the sportster seat foam:
Here's my "cowl" on top of it:
Now, bear with me here, they both need trimming and cleaning up and some more layers, but here are the 2 parts together:
I made the cowl really big so that I can trim it up as I need to. I will end up shortening it quite a bit and I wanted some room to play with. I think it's a great shape. I wanted to mimic something like this:
