Brass casing (taillight)

This brass casing I got from Piet is a real good beginning of a taillight casing.
I just made it a bit shorter and and added some red plastic glass I found in my shed. I think clear dark red glass is gonna look better, but we'll get to that after I sorted the inner electrical stuff out.
This baby is gonna look cool on my bratstyle CB500! sorry crack ointment guy!
Just messing with you! (goed gevonden he, messing!) , it's yours if you want it! Merry shitfuck!

Old brass stuff

Piet came over bringing me all kinds of weird brass pieces. This is great stuff! ....and yes Igor, the casing is already in my backpack so you can check it out tomorrow!

Brass Horn

When I was at the iron shop I found a huge container stacked with old copper and brass waste. Max and I rescued this beaten up horn. Maybe I can fix it up again....

Seatpan (2)

I picked up some sheet metal yesterday and started making the seatpan.
Welded some brackets and a support tube at the back.

Paintings by Piet (2)

My father in law painted this one of the Chateau Longat in St.Germain Lembron, Puy de Dôme, France. Pay him a visit at www.pietlammers.nl

Preparing the frame

This week I prepared the frame of the CB500 for fitting the seatpan and I've straightened out some ugly spots and straightened out the lines on the main frametube.

Lead loading lessons

Today I dropped by at Igor's place to pick up some stuff and to take a look at his newly modified XS650 frame. He and Michael from General Wheels did an amazing job hardtailing the frame, the lines are great!

He also showed me how he was lead loading his gastank. First apply some crack ointment on the bare metal, then heat it with a tiny toy torch, rub some tin soldiers on it (head first) and smile! Nothing to it!

Max's girl

Whoooo.....!!!!
They met in France about 3,5 years ago (at the age of 3!) and still see each other a few times a year. Isn't this great!

Winter Bike

My Xj700 is taken a real beating these days.

Sinterklaas

Sinterklaas, yep, sounds just like Santa Claus....were we live we celebrate Sinterklaas...basicly the same shit...

Tail light bobber style

The man who invented customised telephone shortlists and crack ointment gave me this tail light "glass" today. I've been working on cone shapes for a while, trying to figure out how to get it in the shape I had in mind. The idea is to make the end of the cone fall over the light glass and to embed the little mounting brackets.

Silver ring

My wife is learning how to make jewelry on a goldsmith course, she made this silver ring. It's casted in a mold she made out of wax, it's a really cool process.

Tail light

My first attempt to make a brass taillight for Igor's XS650 bobber project. The tank cap is also in progress.....

Gas tank cap ornament (part4)

The proto I made didn't fit ofcourse, didn't have the measurement and it was a test to see if it looked ok on the tank. It looked great so I started to make a new one. This time with the right measurements. This is how it goes the old fashion way.... Max, pay attention!

Gas tank cap ornament (part3)

Igor (Discharged and the man who invented crack ointment) has made a gastank for his XS650 bobber project. He mailed me this pic with the measurements of the tube. The round ornament has to fall over the weld, so it has to be a mild bowl shape.
This is the proto I made today, so he can see if it fits next monday.

Copper bellmouth

I found a shiny copper miniature thing??? No idea what it was, but when I removed the top and the bottom, the shape of it it really cool. I made it look old and I think it could be a real cool carb bellmouth. This one is too small so I have to make something myself.

Gas tank cap ornament (part2)

I've been working on this brass ornament again. This is what it looks like so far.

Shortening front fork legs

Yesterday I managed to get about 7cm of the front fork leg to achieve that low gravel-crew like look. Today my dad and I pulled the inner spring back in place.....pfffff

Brass tail light

Trying to make a tail light. The shell was originally part of some ugly candle holder or something....well anyway, I didn't shoot a picture of it.....cut off the ugly parts and made the back of it round.

Caferacer....or

Last week I've saw a pic at gravel-crew.
It's amazing what they do with Japanese bikes, without changing anything to the basic frame.
Since I've already put the back-end of my bike down about 1.75", I thought I'd try to see what it would look like if the front came down to the same level.

Adding a tank in Photoshop....

Paintings by Piet

My Father in Law is complaining to me that no one visits his site. Pay him a visit some day at www.pietlammers.nl, it's a really nice site and he's maintaining it himself in modX at the age of (almost) 75!
This drawing of Rembrandt's painting De Nachtwacht, Piet made at the age of 14...

Gastank modification

I've started today on my gastank. I bought a CB750KZ tank from a 1981 model. It had that annoying mounting brackets on it for the sidecaps. I've cut them of and made the whole thing smooth with filler. Then I started to annoy myself about the fact that it still was a 750KZ tank......

So I've sanded the whole thing back to bare metal and started some cutting to get that straight line from the front to the back. (Enormous dent has to be fixed!!) Now I think I'm gonna made some "kneeholes" to the sides to make it fit better to the seat and give it a real race look. The fuel opening has to come of also to make the top smooth.....

Pee on a Tree (Part 1)

That's my boy!

Gastank cap ornament

Today I've tried some different kinds of rivets on different material. Copper plate with brass rivets, brass plate with copper rivets. I've also tried to make it look old by heating it and cooling it off with oil.

The idea is to make a brass round plate with copper rivets. I did this real quick Photoshop just to see what it looked like....

Exhaust Valve Control

Igor, from Discharged is building an awesome low budget bobber, based on a XS650. We often talk about ideas and one of those ideas is that he wants to build in an Exhaust Control Valve in the open exhaust pipes. The mechanism is simple...
This is easy to make yourself to keep it low budget, such a device will cost you around $150,00 at racinglab.com! A choke lever will do, but on a bobber with already some brass elements, I thought I'd try to make him a custom Brass lever.



It' not quite finished, it still needs some work. And this is also made from the end cap of a morter grenade shell, one from 1935. A black knob also suits it.....