I'm seeing a lot about this build and your style of building that I like!
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Well it's tomorrow and I didn't see any demons in the night, so I'll say it was a success. Finishing up my brekky before I head into the shop. As Samwise Gamgee once said: eggs, sausage, nice crispy bacon.
Fabrication is fun! I love the creativity and the direction your going with this one. Great work on the hub. Should be really awesome!
Found a video where I trimmed the Huffy sprocket flange down to match the Schwinn flange with my hillbilly lathe. R.I.P. headphone users
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That's ingenuity!
Testing out a few new bits. Glad my phone has a super wide photo mode, cause I'm standing against the other wall and can barely fit the frame in
The long seat springs should be a perfect fit
Thinking about adding in another bar
Wow, this is going to be big! That's a 26" wheel, right? Cool!
Yup. 26" x 130mm, a little over 5" wide
I'm at a standstill until I get a few more parts, so I'm trying to figure out what leather to use on the seat. I'm thinking of using this color combo. The textured piece would wrap the outside, with the chestnut colored one being the main piece. The grey would be a tiny border piece of piping, and I'd use a grey thread
This is one of the most complicated and incredibly tedious sewing patterns I've ever attempted.
It would be so much easier if I had a sewing machine, but they're way out of my price range. I'm trying to create a quilted leather seat top, but I'm doing it entirely by hand sewing. Which means I have to sit here with a needle and thread and put each stitch in one by one. Below is what I'm attempting to create
That’s a lot of hand sewing!
By my estimate, just the seat top will take something like 20 yards of thread
Love the shape of the extra bar you are thinking about!
You have put the 'Mad' back into LeMad Hatter! Mad; scientist that is!
Pulling out all the stops in Class 2 after winning last year's Class 1 ? Now that's Mad!
RaT oN~!
Pulling out all the stops in Class 2 after winning last year's Class 1 ? Now that's Mad!
RaT oN~!
Now that's dedication to a vision!
I've been doing my own leather work for close to 6 years now. Everything has been done the hard way because leather sewing machines go for $1500+. I've gotten pretty decent at being patient
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Those are all rad
