Merry Christmas

To Friggin ME!

Bench Project

Wow 3rd one in a single day!

I figured I need to be posting less B.S. of my life and more project stuff ...So my students come up with an Idea to make some benches for the school.  They pitch the idea to the big guy, and now the school will pay for one of these benches to be made, and if it turns out good he'll pay for 2 more.  This is our rough set up, but the color scheme is the school colors so it should look nice when we are done.  The school almost out sourced these to a local CO. but we can build this almost 80% less then them, go figure slave labor.

Halloween 2010

First pic is of trick or treat night second is an 80's prom themed b-day party we went to the next weekend.

Punk rocker and a little Kitty

We are super hot.

Cali trip

So I have a really good friend of mine thats at UCLA Dental school.  He's in his 3rd year and I have been promising him that I would visit.  My wife and I had a weekend off that actually lined up together and we made a weekend of it.

Here are a few pics of us a this bowl somewhere near LA.

It was super vert, like old school wana be a real pool bowl.  The 6' section had at least a 18" of vert.

Here's me carving up the deep end.

My buddy Justin getting up there.

I have been surfing once before in my life and...it was hard.  I didn't have anyone telling me what to do or how to do it, I was just out in the water by my self.  Justin is getting big into surfing so he convinced me to give it anther try.  Lets just say the next pic here show perfectly well how well the day went.

The Suit is inside out

We are ready to go, I went and I tried and I'm leaving surfing to the surfers.  I suck and I thought I was going to die.

Oh we also visited all the Rob Dyredek Skate Plaza's close by.  This one was not too bad the others were pretty sketchy.

   

 

Ugh

Sorry blogging is hard :(  I have some skat photos from my Cali trip to come soon.  I'm almost ready to build some Z bars too.

Crotch Bobber

I knew it could be done right and look sweet as all get out.  This bike is so legit.

www.flightcycles.com

Random

I peeped these over at bubble visor, definitely not the norm. I think they are super rad.

Then I saw this chopped Harley tank and thought it was super fantastic.  See more at kemosabe and the lodge 

Your Favorite Hand Signal

Found This over at Blood Falcons website.  Though it was pretty nifty.  I love the Pit Stop one.

Unique Bars

These guys over at front street have got it going on, and I hope to soon.

http://frontstcycle.blogspot.com/2010/10/unique-bars-for-unique-builder.html

Flat Development

I thought it would be easiest to weld across that seam than the other way.  Each Half will be bent into shape and then welded together. I just need to make the tunnel.

Oh and "I am Batman"  only because they look like bats.

Gas tank Final

Or at least for now.  What do you think, I actually modified the dimensions to about the size of my current tank.

So these are a few tanks I peeped today on the net.  I really like the far left one.

Gas tanks?

Which one do you think I should go with? or spend most of my time working on for my bike?

Thanks.

Option 1


Option 2



Option 3

Signage 2.0

It's funny to look back and see who things develop and come to be.  From a random encounter to a friendship to an idea to help someone out, then a design, and finally into production.

The concept design was pretty sick if I do say so myself.

This is basically what the DXF file looked like. From this one file I selected just the anchor points and the background and saved a base file.  Then I reopened and selected the anchor points and letters, saved this as a letters file.  I had to adjust a little bit of the pipes because the distance between cuts was too narrow.  With Plasma cutting the kerf is still pretty small, a little over 1/16".  So when two lines are closer than 1/8" that will pretty much destroy the line.

The base cut out with out a hitch! a good size sign base.

Then I had a break for lunch.

DO NOT LOOK AT THE ARC!    

  

The Letters are cut out and displayed for your enjoyment.  So what you have to be aware of, is that this is a relatively hot process.  The effect that heat has on metal, especially thin, metal is pretty dang gnarly.  The entire 30+ minutes I have a squirt bottle and damp paper towels to cool off the metal as fast as possible, if I don't the metal will warp really bad.  I think I did a good job at this the metal only expanded a little. 

This is the left over piece of 4x8 16ga. metal, it's pretty cool I think.

And a rough layout of the finished product.  We still have to drill out the holes and get this think cleaned up of all the slag and coolant, then get it powder coated.  I need to talk to Brady and finalize how we are going to mount this thing all together.

Well I hope you like the feet added in.  Sorry for the so so pictures, taken on my not so so camera phone.

laters 

Spare Time

So my life has been getting more and more hectic.  And as the school year progresses I feel like I'm just barely keeping my head above water.  But in my spare time (chuckles)  I have been working in some images and STEP files to send to a CNC.  Brady at TWFMco. has been wanting to start doing some bike bars for a while now.  so for you viewing pleasure I have 4 prototype images.  Please give my your feed back.

Click on it for Full Screen

Car show 9-4-10

So here are some ill rides from the SL Hardcore / American Legion car show last weekend.  The same weekend my throttle cable broke on the way home.  Some real serious cars here and I posted the ones I thought were bestest.

Turning Tables

So my good buddy Jeff who gave me the name "Jared the Welder"  had this XS650 that was nothing but a head ache and a money pit.  Well today I just dropped my bike off at Two Wheeled Freedom Machine Co to get it fixed, and he just picked his up today and road it home.  On Saturday I was on my way home from a car show in SLC and getting on the freeway my throttle had gave out.  It looked like it was just the linkages that came out.  Today we found out that I had snapped the cable in two.  I guess I'm riding too much like a bat outa hell...oh wait thats fine cuz my full throttle speed is 75mph.  Anywho so I decided since I'm needing this fixed that I would get the rest of the bike worked over and tuned up.  I haven't done any tuning since I put the new exhaust and float it, so I needs it.

                       Snapped Cable                                                               Bike on the lift.

Side note This is a sick bike I saw today on the Church Of Choppers Blog.  I'm having an emotional affair with those pipes!

Peep 1.0

So I posted some bars from Front Street Cycle a week or so ago, and tons of people thought I made them.  I had a link on the page to their site but it wasn't very noticeable.  Any who I updated that post and now you can see how I would of made them if they were mine.  You could make them straight bars, or put some drag right in them like this.  I think the added detail in the uprights add to the look a little.  But please add your thoughts  These bars measure about 9" high and 20" wide  the uprights are about 8" wide.

Bars 1.0

Bars 1.1

Wyo Tech 2010 visit

So over the summer Wyo Tech in Laramie, WY invited me out for a tour, they picked up the tab so it wasn't hard to say yes.  Below are just half on the pictures I got.  The place was just rad.  Of course I love the Street Rod and Custom Fabrication areas.  They just can do anything at this place.  But take a look at this stuff I tried to put captions on some of the pics.

My Goodie bag

this is some sort of Rock crawler 

More Goodies

Some sweet rail frame

This is a drag frame

see how they splice

 

Mechanics to the left

Mechanics to the right

a sweet little go kart

This is a working motor with all controls and both fuse boxes.  Complete diagnostics can be run on the and the Instructor can change any problem he wants.

Some nice body work being done

Killer BBQ!

I WANT!!

They had tons of projects cars all around, some were just unbelievable.

They used they fab skills to mold this hood from a piece of flat metal. I want a Iron Hammer and English Wheel so bad

Seam machines

They have a sick painting class.  This is your project!

More Hammers

Oh yes I will have one of these tanks, but the paint on mine won't be as nice.

This hood is so ridiculous.  The base is textured with a grinder, then a grinder was used again to put a textured flame pattern down, then a really nice fade and candy and clear. 

Their Diesel department is freakin' HUGE! 

More Diesel