Denis' Brooks saddle covered in black leather with striped grid perforations to match his Baum paint scheme, with matching bar tape.
There have been many notable highs in my practice since I started doing Busyman leatherwork in 2008. One of those highlights was meeting chef Ben Shewry of Attica restaurant and being commissioned to make leather folders for the restaurant's bills, beverage and wine lists. Here are a couple of fresh bill folders and wine list covers from earlier this year. The staff at Attica do such an amazing job with cleaning and maintaining the original folders but unfortunately one mysteriously disappears from time to time.
Burnished light tan leather with a pull up effect for Rolling Wheels. The large perforated motif is derived from the original Stelbel head-badge design.
I sculpted some fresh padding for this SMP Lite 209. This saddle one of the more heavily padded models in the SMP range. In the past I've avoided replacing the padding on these because I wasn't sure I'd be able to achieve good enough symmetry and a shape close enough to the original. Sculpted from a few layers of medium density EVA foam. Covered here in the standard black vegetable tanned kangaroo leather. It turns out were pretty happy with the shape.
