I always wanted a Jimmy Seat on my scooter. You know, like the one Jimmy has in Quandrophenia. Sometimes they are called ironing boards. Well, I also wanted a rear rack that folded and held a spare tire. When I got my Stella I found that no one makes a 3-in-1 rack with a tall backrest so I had given up on having one... Then, over on the LML Owner's Group of Great Britain forum, I spied a 4T with a 3-in-1 rear rack with a tall Jimmy style backrest. I wrote to Geezer, the owner of the scooter, and he told me that he built his tall backrest and bolted it to the low rest frame. We traded a few IMs and he told me how he went about it in detail. I was hooked, and had to do it!
So... I ordered a tall backrest cover from PK Trim to match my custom Black jack seat cover, and went at it:
First I made a cardboard pattern. I love cardboard patterns since they are free, and if you mess up you can just start over.
Once the pattern fit well inside the cover, with just enough room to handle the wood and the padding, I traced it into 5/8" furniture quality birch ply and cut it out:
