How I made my Stag head bike seat.

I’ve had this idea for ages, no idea where it came from; you know when you lie and look up to the clouds and see objects or faces in them? Well…I see this with everything I look at and I saw a head in the form of a bike seat. I toyed with the idea of doing a dog but from the position of the seat it would look more familiar as a stag head when you have it on a wall.

I wanted it to look very similar to the original stag head but with a playful charm using bright colours and memorable objects such as a bike seat. I always had my recycle? Upcycle brief in mind but in the end I had to use wire to hold up the antlers to stabilise and style them.

This wasn’t the hardest thing I’ve made in this project but it was fun to make and is great to look at.

My friend Matt kindly gave his bike seat to use and I collected a few bottle caps to use from work and at home, I sculpted the wire to the shape I wanted the antlers to look like and doubled it up so it was a little stronger because I only used thin wire, then I fed the bottle caps onto it leaving room for it to attach to the seat. Once fully widened the two wires so the caps didn’t slip off. Then with the bottom I wrapped the wire around the bike seat holder. I thought this would hold the antlers up but they were just a little heavier than I thought so I had to glue gun the antlers to the top of the bike seat.

Because of other projects I didn’t remember to actually finish my head so when you look at the photos, it Matts hand.  If I had the time I would finish it off by either outing it on a stand or on a frame to hang on a wall.