So, I have two choices: continue in the direction im going (an unknown (to me) road fraught with peril and discovery) or trash the seat/tail I had planned and do something a bit easier in the end.
Here is what Im working with so far, its an old picture and bike is way more complete now but I havent done any more work on the seat or tail since:

If I do this I have a few things to figure out. Namely, adding padding to the seat pan, figuring out how to cover that padding with upholstery without it looking janky, sanding down and painting the tail piece, figuring out how to mount to tail piece to the seat pan, how to make the union of the tail piece and upholstery not look janky, and working in wired connection for the tail lightso I can still lift the seat to get to the toolbox and battery.
Option two is to ditch the CB700 tail piece and the seat pan I have on there now. I have one of these side-mounted '28 Ford lights laying around, which solves a few issues (tail light, license plate mount, license plate light):

I could use that and get it installed in an hour or so, then work in a stock seat without the fender, or make some kind of brat style seat out of something or other. probably a stock seat though.



Something like that.
So, what do you guys think? Anyone ever done upholstery work???
