Momma and I loved the Sargent low cut that came on the bike so much, I gutted it, cut the pan, stuffed it with sunmate foam, topped it with more sunmate, and am finishing up the major shape work before I slap a 1/2" of pudgee on top of that.
Done the "send it out to a reputable vendor, pay $400, and hope for the best" thing already with the vmax. Provided my current seat rebuild turns out well, I will be tearing out the (in my mind's eye) used couch foam in the Yamaha that I paid all that money for. Perhaps after the season ends here, should have enough seat time on my Connie saddle build to decide if I can do better on the max. I imagine it would be a much simpler seat to redo from the pan up, whole thing with new, proper foams.