A day at wall lake

Starting to take shape

Custom dropouts are done!

They started out as softail dropouts

Continuing neck forging

Engine is coming along short block done

Whoo straight outa V TWIN!!

I'll take one chrome I beam sprinter please . I will be cutting into this beauty within the next few days it's a shame

Frame forgings

This is the idea to creating forgings. You get the idea

E fab shoot

Frame progress

It has been a few weeks since I have posted the last time. I went back to South Dakota for a few weeks to see the family over Christmas. I will continue blogging at least once a week again! Before I left I put in many hours on my frame and progress is starting to show. The objective here is to recreate what looks like a stock Harley Davidson factory forging. But of course do it all myself with a custom neck and neck angle, goose-necked, and of course converting it to a single down tube. I also made a tasteful looking gusset to add a little spice to allow the down-tube, backbone, and country bar, to flow together more smoothly. You can see how I doubled sleeved the tubes to replicate a HD forging. Next time I post you will see how it looks when it is finished. I will be running about 100 rods worth of weld all over it and then smoothing it all together ;)

Tv bike

Ok.. The frame

The frame has went quite smoothly here at e-fab. Bending tubes and Welding them in place isn't the difficult part. The difficult part is going to be all the forgings I am about to tackle in the next week. You can see on the back bone what seems to look like a sleeved forging. I am going to get pretty carried away with it all, hopefully sometime next week I will have it finished up to show you what it really should look like. Stay tuned. We also have camera crews coming to e-fab this week;) stay tuned!

My first magazine spread. IRONWORKS

Frame adjustments

In this photo you will see what almost looks like a nice, elegant Harley neck that was cut right off by some retard. Well you're seeing it right. As I thought more about it, I realized that the Harley neck was not going to achieve the look I was shooting for, nor was it going to allow me enough clearance to make the bike fully ridable. So I have decided I am going to machine my own neck and place it 2 inches forward and one inch higher then where the Harley neck was. I will be giving the down tubes a goose neck effect as well. Keep posted next week I will probably have the process done. Also I will be making my own front end now which I am very excited to do with the help of Lock. It will be bitchen!

Screen

I decided to add some screen to the holes I put in my front drum backing plate. Simply because when you're riding down the road there is nothing to stop gravel and small pebbles from jumping right up into your braking system. The screen is copper screen antiqued to give it a nice look, I also did the same affect to the washers next to each of the holes.

Waiting...

The last week or so there has not been much to post about around the shop. My wheels and hubs are off getting plated, I can't do anything else until the bike is a roller. Mean while, Lock and I have been working extensively on a few business proposals. Stay tuned in the next few weeks to see if it all pans out. It is starting to get cold on the East Coast and I don't like it, it reminds me too much of home back in the Midwest. I am ready for winter to come and go, the faster the better. I will be going back home for a few weeks over Christmas, hopefully I can post a picture of a roller before I get on a plane. It is all on the other guys at this point.

Both front and rear hubs are now complete

I don't know what it is about fabrication. Once you know how you just want to change everything ;) I felt guilty about just buying these drums and lacing them to a couple of wheels... I had to do something!

Front hub

So I decided I wanted to concentrate on some areas that typically get over looked, like the "hubs". There is 3 days worth of work in that little guy. Next it is off to the plater. Stay tuned in the next day or two I will be doing the rear :)

My front hub complete

You can see a before and after shot of the Triumph front hub that I altered.

Sub museum!

Submarines have come to fascinate me the more I learn about them. Imagine being a U-Boat crew mate, 3 month missions at a time, maybe only getting to see daylight 2 hours of the entire 3 months.