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[jats]

Congrats on 5000 views!

ditto

 

[fordsnake]

I've spent the last few days tying up the little things on this project before working on the front fork (which will be a challenge in itself).

I found a few more things to add before tackling the front end. I found these bezels in my parts bin, I'd like to make a time machine speedometer using them. :wink: The grey one is a rear reflector housing off an early Schwinn. The brass bezel was taken off a damaged Delta light. Don't know if it'll work?

 

[fordsnake]

Congrats on 5000 views!

Congrats on 5000 views!

ditto

Thanks guys for the recognition...I really appreciate the interest in this build.

 

[fordsnake]

I spent the entire day, yesterday , sculpting the gooseneck housing for the speedometer...geeze, what a bad idea that was! Not only was it too big for the front of the bike, but it also looked like a duck head! Oh well, scrap that idea and back to the drawing board

 

[kingfish254]

Nice Chameleon Head Speedo. I haven't seen one of those in a long while.

 

[fordsnake]

Yeah, you know its a bad idea when things start looking like creatures to everyone else instead of what you actually had in mind. I tossed that sucker in the trash and reverted to keeping it simple

 

[kingfish254]

That's the thing with art, it's in all in the eye of the beholder. First you thought of a duckhead, I first saw a chameleon, but on second glance, I think you should have saved it for a Sleestak build. . Don't get me wrong, I actually like it and bet that it would work once it was painted up. But looking at it alone like that, it screams Land of the Lost Sleestak to me now. :mrgreen: Carry on, good buddy!

 

[fordsnake]

Something's terribly wrong with both of us my friend!

 

[kim_dude]

I totally saw a Sleestak

 

[jats]

I totally saw a Sleestak

:shock: I thought they were only indigenousness to Australia!

Troy

 

[Gold Street Customs]

You could so sell that to the Duck Dynasty boys!!!

 

[fordsnake]

Since there's a consensus that the "duck head" is a joke...I scrapped that idea and looked in my stockpile of parts and found a nice late 1930's Torrington 'Art Deco' gooseneck and Delta Gangway electric horn for my head mast . I added the green jewel ( it was actually a green marble i cut in half with a tile cutter) the bezel is from the bottom of a tube
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Here's how I tied off my pipes. So that it appears to be a small exhaust. The leather badge (turned out nice) I soaked it in acetone before applying on the frame and allowed it to air dry, adding a nice patina.



Here's a small sampling of the 7 colors it took to paint the white PVC pipes for my exhaust


This photo shows my brass tie (also PVC) and how I managed to wrap the exhaust tubing around the frame's down tube

 

[junknutz1975]

ABSOLUTELY AMAZINGLY AWESOME !! :shock:
WOW!!

:mrgreen:

 

[LukeTheJoker]

:shock:
Where on earth do you get your inspiration from?
Inside your head must be a crazy place!

Luke.

 

[Glen]

:shock:
Where on earth do you get your inspiration from?
Inside your head must be a crazy place!

Luke.

I wouldn't call the inside of fordsnake's head "crazy"... I'd call it "wondrous" :shock:

 

[kingfish254]

Wicked work buddy!!
An Art Deco gooseneck is trumps a Sleestak duckhead anyday!

 

[sleepy]

This build is truly a masterpiece.....superb creativity, ingenuity and imagination. 8)

 

[junknutz1975]

Super creative!
As a kid , I bet you always had the best Halloween costumes in the neighborhood! :wink:

 

[noodlenoggin]

:shock: Wow. I echo everyone else -- your build is up on another level. I would NOT have guessed that those pvc pieces were anything but metal, and cutting a marble in half with a tile saw? Who DOES that? :mrgreen:

 

[Gold Street Customs]

:shock: :? :shock: :? :? :mrgreen: :mrgreen: 8) 8) 8) 8) .....YOUR BATMAN!!!!!!