I'm thinking of doing some engine turned design on the frame and fenders along with the silver paint. I'm going to try a practice piece later this week to see how it looks. Basically, it's going to have this look along with high metallic silver paint.
Im a big fan of engine turning, It should look great with the silver and maybe a red pinstripe...Thanks, I'm not going crazy this year, I've just been wanting to do something with this bike and figured BOTEN is the perfect reason. I'm thinking of doing some engine turning on the sides of the tubes and down the center of the fenders then paint the rest a high metallic silver and I'll probably separate the two with a red pinstripe.Bike is looking awesome!
A buddy of mine has that exact same Stewart Warner Police Special speedo in his Bonneville Salt Flat car. I'd love to have one but I would have to sell a kidney to afford it.
I noticed your build keeps getting further down the list. I hope this means you're getting the deuce running?I fell asleep a few days and see what I miss... I fourth the engine turn idea, you know I'm all about making a simple project harder for the sake of coolness
This is just turning into a sweet project Bum dude.
This is so cool as she sits! Love the bare frame...there's your silver...and the red mixed with a little chrome...so sweet! The 60's - 70's ramblers in the background fit the build too..now if we could just change the vehicles...Doing some mock up before painting.
For noobs like me, how is this effect achieved? Looks killer!Yesterday I practiced doing some engine turning on the chain guard. This isn't the final look yet, I'm just trying to figure out the spacing of the circles and if the process I'm using is going to work or not. I like the look so far but I need to offset each row so the circles don't line up straight up and down and I also need to space them out further. I miss measured and made them too close to each other. Oh well, it was just a practice run and now I know it's going to work.
When I do the final one, I'll do pic by pic directions on how I did it. This will be the way I found works well and not the only way.
I like the bare metal look on this bike too but I have a vision for it. It will still have some bare metal on it but that's for a later post. As for the cars, if I would have taken a picture facing the other direction you would have seen one of my old cars that fit the era.
Thanks. I did some grinding last night and got the chain guard and front fender ready for the engine turning. Maybe this weekend I'll get those done to show next week.
