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Re: Mold from a comfortable seat?
By:Ross Leidy
Date: 9/18/1998, 8:53 am
In Response To: Re: Custom Seats (Mike Spence)

I bought the "happy bottom" seat, and haven't been too pleased with it. It doesn't provide much (if any) thigh support. I've got a commercial boat with a fiberglass seat that fits like a glove. I'm thinking of taking a mold of it, duplicating the shape with multiple layers of glass cloth, and applying a thin sheet of minicell foam.

I plan to cover the existing seat in plastic wrap, and use strips of cloth to form the mold (or just use the mold as the new seat). Has anyone done anything like this, and does this approach seem viable?

Ross

Messages In This Thread

Custom Seats
Mark Bodnar -- 9/17/1998, 9:49 pm
Re: Custom Seats
Rick C. -- 9/17/1998, 10:42 pm
Rock solid custom Seats
Paul Jacobson -- 9/19/1998, 8:07 pm
Re: Custom Seats
Mark Bodnar -- 9/18/1998, 9:02 pm
Re: Custom Seats
John Waddington -- 9/19/1998, 7:31 am
Re: Custom Seats
Mark Bodnar -- 9/20/1998, 7:59 pm
Re: Custom Seats
Mike Spence -- 9/18/1998, 3:07 am
Re: Custom Seats: Paul Stomski did it....
Tor-Henrik Furmyr -- 9/19/1998, 5:53 pm
Re: Mold from a comfortable seat?
Ross Leidy -- 9/18/1998, 8:53 am
Seat Mold
Jay Babina -- 9/18/1998, 9:35 am
Sand mold
Jay Babina -- 9/21/1998, 9:55 am
Re: Form Fit Seat
Mark Kanzler -- 9/20/1998, 11:24 am
Re: Seat Mold
Mark Kanzler -- 9/20/1998, 11:18 am
Re: Seat Mold
Paul Jacobson -- 9/19/1998, 4:50 pm
Re: Seat Mold
Mark Bodnar -- 9/18/1998, 9:13 pm
Re: Seat Mold
Ross Leidy -- 9/18/1998, 1:06 pm
Re: Seat Mold
Bob Harding -- 9/18/1998, 2:39 pm