J C Huffins Flightliner

[The Renaissance Man]

I love the flow of this beast! That seat looks mean like that. I can see how hammering that must be on knees though.

Agree, the change in the seat color (wasnt feeling the yellow) and moving it forward really really makes this flow nice!

Thanks guys, I still don't want to get too deep into this one, but sometimes it's hard to hold back.

The seat is really working so far. I've got an idea for tying the seat and the tank together (finish wise) that I'll get to later.

It's hard to get the feel from a picture, but looking at the profile from the birds eye view, it has a very cool hour glass kind of line to it that looks very smooth...

 

[kingfish254]

Very cool!
You can fill in the seat holes and seams with some Steel epoxy putty before you paint it.

 

[The Renaissance Man]

Thanks kingfish.
I'm not going to be painting it. It's going to get re-covered with leather.

 

[The Renaissance Man]

Started on the tank.
After bead blasting all of the paint and rust, I used some steel epoxy putty that kingfish suggested to fill the horn and light holes. The metal is so pitted that I had already decided instead of trying to slick it up for paint, I'm going to cover it with leather to tie the seat and tank together.

My two color choices (as of now) for the leather are either black or tan. That will depend on the paint color and overall scheme that keeps changing from day to day. I'm thinking either primer black or primer brown which are both common hot rod choices. The black will break up the other color whether it's black leather/brown primer or black primer/tan leather. Plus, I keep thinking about realistic flames. I've got plenty of time to decide.

Here's the tank...

 

[LukeTheJoker]

I love the sound of your ideas!

Luke.

 

[The Renaissance Man]

Got the leather for the seat and tank from a thrift store for $7.50. :wink:

 

[The Renaissance Man]

I reduced the coat to a leather pelt to see what I've got to work with.
There are some interesting seams that I'm planning to incorporate to give it some extra detail.

The color in this picture is more accurate than that in the first one.

 

[LukeTheJoker]

Very cool! It would be awesome if you could incorporate a pocket into it somewhere! :lol:

Luke.

 

[The Renaissance Man]

I did consider the pocket idea also, but it didn't really work.

Here's a rough mock up for the saddle...

 

[The Renaissance Man]

Broke down the rat trap fork (not sure if I'll use it on this bike or not) and discovered that one of the rocker bolts is missing. I've tried McMaster-Carr and Fastenal with no luck.

Anyone out there got an extra one of these?

For this fork...

 

[The Renaissance Man]

Thinking about painting the frame with automotive truck bed coating. Anyone else tried this?

 

[CCR]

Personally not a fan of that stuff, would rather use undercoating if I had to pic between the two ...


undercoating ...

vs


bed liner...

 

[The Renaissance Man]

Doesn't the undercoating stay soft like tar after it's applied? The bed liner is more like hard rubber after it dries.

My first thought was wrinkle paint like you would find on old electronic gadgets, but I can't find it locally. Maybe I should order some of it from Eastwood or somewhere else on the web.