Wednesday, March 13, 2013

VINDICTIVES wallet

Got an opportunity to make a wallet for and old friend . There was a group of us that used to run together when we were younger we called ourselves The Vindictives .. we were a group of punks, metal heads and skaters.... kinda the outkasts ... so when Chad said he wanted a wallet with Vindictives and a Danzig skull ,.....man was i stoked..


I hope you enjoy the wallet for along time Chad

A seat for LULU

So Ghassan is to date my furthest customer(Jeddah, Saudi Arabia) , He found me on FaceBook by  word of mouth from Josh over at Tail End Customs . Ghassan had an image of his daughter he wanted to have tooled into the seat. I did my thing drew, shaved stock seat down, carved ,tooled , molded,glued and stitched dyed and sealed . Then it took along trip to the middle east.







Thanks again for the business Ghassan

KOOL SISSY

This Bike belongs to Johnny one bad ass Harley mechanic here in Austin. Look him up at KoolDaddy Motorcicles .  
Here are a few pics of what i've done so far spaced the fender to make it sit right on the tire, a sick sissy bar styled around a safety pin , and a license plate and tail light bracket  










Sporty fender strut fix





So this was for my personal bike I had an issue with the old fender strut mounts snapping of probably due to the sissy bar I added to the rear and the more rigid ride of the 2" lower shocks in the rear. So I got some 1-1/4" solid round bar turned the end to slug into the stock frame where i cut old stock dimpled fender strut mounts off . Seam and plug welded  them in place. you'll never notice what I even did but they are solid from here on out.

Quick chop on a Honda



Quick and simple chop, on this honda that sounded like the Jetsons space car....

Fender Fixing



Johnny of Kool Daddies Motorsicles here in Austin came to me with a botched fender. A buddy of his said he could weld and well it didn't come out to good. So i fixed it .......you can see the patch from rear of the fender but not in front...... now isn't that what it's all about :)

More on Joe's xs650









Here's a few pics of some items I've done on Joe's xs650 chop,  electric box, brake stay , sissy bar , seat pan , and mid controls ..All hand made in Austin TX baby . I'm fixing to hit this bike pretty hard finally got all the parts in to finish up fabbing. so more pics sooon

Saturday, January 5, 2013

JOE'S XS650

I meet Joe about a year ago here at my shop he was in town visiting some of his relatives in the neighborhood . He happened to see the bikes and stopped by for a quick chat. almost a year later he contacted me about a this xs that he was having built by a shop in Houston but was not happy about the work so he asked if he could bring it to me to finish it up. I said sure and the next weekend he brought me a bunch of parts and a really screwed up attempt at welding a TC bros hartail on. the welds were porous and well, all around  bad and since the back bone was welded down without an inner jig or the motor in place the motor wouldn't even fit in the frame anymore. So i ended up having to cut the hardtail off again and put in my jig and weld it back up.In doing so, I realized that the slugs they used were only in the front rails about  1/4". so again I had to cut those out and make new ones.







   Since then i have mounted new tires on the rims gotten the front mag powder coated , made some custom bars for it, fender struts , mounted the led sled fender and got the rubber mounted sporty tank mounted.  still a bit of work to do and a shit ton of ideas to sift through for this so stay tuned.