The Work - part 3

So the next step was to make the seat. I had an idea from the very beginning to make the seat out of tubes of bb's (like the kind you shoot in airsoft guns). I wasn't thinking comfort, but style. I thought they would make nice hard lines and come out very clean and always look filled up (even after you've sat on them for a while). My first idea was to use foam for the "mold" and then fill the tubes all from one side with the BBs. This DID NOT work out. You can see from the next couple of pictures that the base and the sides weren't the problem. The problem was when I went to put the top piece on that it had to be glued in too tight of spaces and made the tubes too big and too squishy...

 Then, filling it with BBs began. This is obviously before I decided to scrap the first idea...

 Here you can see how bad it came out...

 Attempt #2 involved making cardboard tubes and then putting the top on and then filling the tubes with bbs and then removing the tubes and sealing it shut. This also DID NOT work...

 it looked okay but it was way too squishy for my tastes...

 With the repainted side badges on...

 And the finished product for seat v2.0

The next post will show the third and last version of the seat which involved no foam....