Tube light

I made this casing today. The tube is made of copper plate, rounded and fixed with a crimped seem. The section for the glass is made of brass, crimped and formed with a....can opener!
Works great on small objects!

Art of Coppersmithing

I picked up this book today. The original was written in 1893! If this ain't learning it the oldschool way, what is?

Heiwa

Found this nice bike from Heiwa
I think I'm going to make such a taillight from copper for my CB500.

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!