I'm a little short on cash for this project at the moment so I've decided to start working on the seat fabrication. I've mentioned before that I wasn't thrilled with the seat that I purchased from BCR and I decided early on that I wanted to try my hand at building one. Thankfully wood is cheap and I have all of the necessary tools to begin building a plug for the seat. I'm going to use the BCR seat as rough guide for the style but I'm going to tweak some of the measurements a bit to give me a little more room under the seat hump for the wiring and electric bits.
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| I'm using 3/4" solid oak for the base and framing of the plug. |
I had plenty of pine on hand from other projects but I wanted to go with something harder so I picked a few pieces of 10" wide oak boards at Home Depot.
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| I cut the tail curve using a router with a jig I made specifically for this project. |
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It would have been nearly impossible to get a cut this clean with a jigsaw.
After a few practice cuts on some scrap wood to get the jig set properly I
ended up with a perfect 4" radius cut. No sanding necessary. |
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