Elephant Seat

This is Damian's seat from San Antonio. He showed up at my house with a whole elephant hide and wanted a seat made with it. The tannery shaved the hide down way to much ( you could see day light through it if you held it up to the sun) So I had to glue it to a piece of cow hide to make sure it wouldn't rip or tear down the line.
The back of it is molded to the custom pan also. The seat turned out pretty cool.
Hope you dig it!

Tunnel tool and tunnel done

The last time i did a tunnel was for Chris at Limey Bikes . It was a pain in the ass to do cause I opted to do it the old fashioned way and bend the metal by hand over a piece of rigid conduit. Yeah that sucked!
This time around I saw this write up on Chop Cult and used it to my benefit.

"Narrowing a Gas Tank with Special 79"

http://www.chopcult.com/news/articles/six-pack-narrowing-a-gas-tank-with-special-79.html?comment_id=5249

The whole segment is really awesome and I used almost all of it as a step by step to split,narrow and tunnel this tank. Big shout out to Jay Roche from Special 79 for taking the time to show us the step by step on how to do this ourselves.
Here's a few pics of the tool and the finished tunnel.

Tunnel and moon disc

So I got the bottom of the tank welded in and cut out ready for the tunnel. I also got the moon disc in from Moon Eyes although I had to send them back to get the proper dish depth. I ran into issues with the speedo gear on the front wheel and also the drum side of the rear wheel. Bob at Moon Eyes has really helped me out on this. Thanks Brother !
It's really an awesome feeling seeing this thing come together after years of just a thought in the back of my head.
I should have the new moon disc's sometime in the next two weeks . So till then I'll finish up the tank and maybe start on the exhaust. enjoy the pics guys!

tank bottom

The first step I took on this was to make a poster board template making sure to arch the poster board with the arch in the bottom of the tank. This was done to insure I had plenty of material to work with. I then transferred it to MDF and routed the edges with a quarter round bit. This was done to make sure once i started to roll the edges I would get a smooth roll. Once that edges were rolled over the form I had to create the arch in the tank bottom to match the tank. What I did was make small cuts in on the edges and then beat the arch into it with a rubber mallet.
Once I get the bottom welded in place I will start on the tunnel. Till then thanks for looking!

CUT ME UP

I cut up the Cole Foster tank today. Took about 1 1/4" at the top and about 5/8" at the rear.
It came out just the way I wanted it to. It Slimmed out the bulky front just enough to make it flow a little better. Next step a new tunnel.

some time with the "salt racer"

Finally got out in the shop today to work on my Salt Racer project. Got the engine set in the frame so i could start fabing up the exhaust and mid-controls. I also set the tank on which is a Cole Foster replica.It looks good but I'm thinking that I am going to narrow it about an inch and a half and take the rib out of it, In doing that I'm going to redo the tunnel with a nice rounded one that fits the frame better. Enjoy the pics!

A pair of Beratta's

Did this wallet for Josh over at "Old School Hardknock". Hope you dig it Brotha!

SAL'S wallet

So I made this wallet for my little brother. He wanted something that resembled some of the Affliction type shirts that you see all those UFC fighters wearing. Well this is what I came up with. Enjoy!

The seat, p-pad and back rest for the Big Daddy Roth Bike

So we stretched this one out just under a year. But this is one of the final pieces to Mike and Gil's tribute bike to Ed Roth and his Rat Fink. Slipped in a pic of the bike back when they put the seat on it and a pic of the proud owners. I'll be posting some pics of the bike when they get the whole set mounted on .
Thanks again for the work guys!

FUXL's Key Chain

Martin AKA "FUXL" , wanted a matching key chain for the wallet I did for him awhile back. This small stuff really is hard on the hands.Here are some pics of the Key chain and wallet.

"Honkey Tonk Honey"

Did this belt for Tyler's wife as a gift from him. I am assuming that she's his little " Honkey Tonk Honey".
The belt came out great! But the one thing I really dislike about belts is that they are hard to take pictures of! Hope you enjoy!

Working Mans Customs in The Horse BSC

Made a seat for Charlie "The Nomad" last year and he wasn't sure what bike he was going to rock the seat on. So it sat for some time.
Then about three days before this years Stampede i get a txt at like 1:00 am in the morning .
Say's "hey man i am rocking your seat on the Stampede" .
Yeah this means Charlie road some where over 3047 in under something like 52 hrs or something. On a hardtail cb750 that was rocking a Working Mans Customs seat.
Here's a few pics from The Horse Backstreet Chopper.
Thanks Charlie, And congrats on the win again this year!