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Thanks OJ! That drum brake is AWESOME! I will be using them for future builds for sure. Thanks, Luke! The first finished build for me. I want to see yours done although. Is there a thread for builds that didn't quite make the time line? I have a couple of them... =] Thanks, G-Matt. These...

What a cool frame! Great job!

1963 Columbia Firebolt frame, ratty... With stock seat bolt, stock bottom bracket cups and bearings, stock headset. Newer fork off of a Huffy mtb(flame painted). Newer BMX three piece steel cranks(flame painted). Non-descript chain ring 40 tooth(flame painted) Bear Trap peddles. Custom hand made...

Done! I'm at my sisters house using a reliable internet connection to upload pics and post. This bike honestly is one of my best builds... the wheel set just toped it off and tied everything together. I robbed the exerciser post off of one of my talls. The flame paint turned out great! The...

What a clean looking ride! Nice build!

Thanks, OJ! Thanks LRR! Leather is fun to work with. Get creative bro!! Great job on that seat. How's it holding up! Thanks MC! "skinned"... love it!

Brooks saddles appear to use 20oz leather(which basically means one square foot of leather weighs 20 ounces) on their saddles, it's almost 1/4" thick. I had a half hide of 20oz tooling leather(it's stiff, "raw", vegetable tanned leather) that I removed my seat from the shoulder area(which is...

I'm not happy with the way my seat turned out.... I'm freakin stoaked!! We'll see how it holds up through time.

It did make me smile... and yes, a "buck" for the leather, I lost conn half way through the upload. I managed to get one more pic uploaded.

Great job on this build, Carl! You put a lot of work and thought into it... and it shows! The bike gods are blessing you for saving that frame. :thumbsup:

Front hub is a Sturmey Archer XL-FD drum brake; rear hub is a Sturmey Archer S2C (116mm spaced, two-speed kickback with a coaster brake). Both wheels are built into 36H Sun Rhyno Lite rims with double-butted Wheelsmith spokes and new Velox rim tape.

Me too! The only way I can think of to mold the leather into a good shape so it doesn't deform is carve a wooden block for a mold. This may be kind of tricky... "Banana phone"?!?!? :21: I bought a new/used wheel set yesterday for this build, hopefully get it next week.

Here goes nothing...

I finally got a connection good enough that I could load some pics. Flame off... "Flame on." The steel on the cranks were almost black when I removed the paint, never seen steel that dark. The different steels and thickness give different patinas. The chain ring came out awesome. The...

Not too sure about that... ;) How about fire on? Maybe change the name of this build to Fire Bomber.

I'm happy with the scale and fit of these parts on the bike now, everything looks like it fits(with the exception of the seat). I went to my LUBS and found a straight fork, less bulky painted cranks, smaller peddles and downsized the chain ring from a 44 to a 40. I have an old leather road bike...

That's correct... I wire wheeled the paint off to get to bare metal, then "torched it". Heat rises, so I hung the fork and started gently heating the lower leg until the metal just starts to turn brown, then pull the heat away and watch the blue color come in. Then keep moving up the piece. If...

Edit: I see now that you were asking about pics of the fork, Sorry, I just got a wild hair and burned it up. I explain the process down a couple of posts though. Hey MC, thanks! Yea I have a few more but my internet isn't reliable(using neighbors) so it's a real pain to up-load pictures. This...

Took her for a lil spin today with my buddy. Go ahead, try to take this bike... I stripped the tan paint off of the fork and flame painted it, then sprayed some clear on it. Not sure if I like it. What do ya think?