Hot Rod Hawthorne

[handyandy1100]

Ummmm.....why Horsey Sauce?

It was handy!

 

[handyandy1100]

Perhaps fold it forward, to the lip of the rear fender? Maybe kinda follow the flow of the chain?

I thought about that, but the factory drop stand mounts won't permit it. I think the cranks would hit it anyway.

 

[Ravenshurst]

I asked the wrong question. I meant "What does Horsey Sauce do?"

 

[Captain Awesome]

I asked the wrong question. I meant "What does Horsey Sauce do?"

 

[handyandy1100]

I asked the wrong question. I meant "What does Horsey Sauce do?"

Oh. It's a condiment from the Arby's restaurant chain. It's a mild horseradish sauce. I used it like a mask to allow bits of the base color to come through the top coat, once the sauce is washed off. A couple of years ago Odd Job used mustard on a bike build in the same way.

 

[OddJob]

We're just pulling your chain a bit, @Ravenshurst !

This might give you some idea of our reference...

Spray the black guard with a rusty brown or red primer color. Then splotch on actual mustard in places where you want rust to show through.

And then spray it with your top coat, a Hammered Metallic in this ^ case.
Then wait till it dries, and hose off the mustard, and the paint that sticks to it.

And mount it on your 'mustard patina-ed' bike build.

 

[kingfish254]

Perhaps fold it forward, to the lip of the rear fender? Maybe kinda follow the flow of the chain?

That could end in disaster. A failure could be the equivalent of the front universal joint of a driveshaft failing on a car.

 

[Ravenshurst]

@OddJob @handyandy1100 Thanks. (I know WHAT it is, I just didn't know WHY, LOL.)
@kingfish254 Good Point. Perhaps I din't think that all the way through.....

 

[SwissGuy]

Because he didn't have mustard

Tomato paste works as well...

 

[kingfish254]

 

[Dr. Tankenstein]

I've kept this pic of this because I wanted to do something similer on a fenderless project. Just an idea.
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Awesome, simple solution

 

[The Renaissance Man]

Mustard. Horsey sauce.


Who knew?

 

[handyandy1100]

Tomato paste works as well...

Yes, but mustard and horseradish have more kick!

 

[Shrunken_Head_Pedaler]

Because he didn't have mustard

This belongs in the joke section!

 

[handyandy1100]

Now to ketchup on the headlight. Got the guts soldered together today and everything put back together and mounted.

Finished up the art deco speed lines (aka cooling fins) tonight. Corners rounded and aluminum cleaned up and glued in.

Thanks to Donethat for the inspiration. I tried this simple idea.

And for whoever is interested, here are my BB guns...

 

[Ulu]

Well it is coming together nicely. Personally I won’t put wood on a bicycle. But then I have lots of sheet metal scrap.

I was a Sheridan guy and I owned a Crossman but I never had a Daisy. So I didn’t know that the Red Rider version had the big lever loop that you could run with gloves on. Now days I have a Benjamin. It is not a lever action, but I do keep a lever action .22, a .30-30 and a .45-70 as well. All bigloops.

 

[handyandy1100]

Well it is coming together nicely. Personally I won’t put wood on a bicycle. But then I have lots of sheet metal scrap.

I was a Sheridan guy and I owned a Crossman but I never had a Daisy. So I didn’t know that the Red Rider version had the big lever loop that you could run with gloves on. Now days I have a Benjamin. It is not a lever action, but I do keep a lever action .22, a .30-30 and a .45-70 as well. All bigloops.

Thanks. I am a woodworker at heart, so my toolbox is better equipped for wood than metal. Lol
The Red Ryders are a new thing for me. I bought the big loop online and installed it myself. I have several old pellet guns, including a Sheridan from the mid-60s. Awesome little rifle.

 

[Ulu]

Dad bought me a Bluestreak when he came back from Vietnam in ‘66. I was 12 years old on a Schwinn Tornado.

By the way I was looking at my collection of old skateboards and I may have to eat those words about not putting wood on a bike. But that’s another project so could be a long time.

 

[MattiThundrrr]

By the way I was looking at my collection of old skateboards and I may have to eat those words

Rat bRoddin' your horizons!
That's what's great about the Build Off, getting pushed outside your comfort zone by others' builds

 

[Ulu]

I missed the headlight source. Is that a 12v security lamp?