The Shop.

This is the shop. In all its quaint glory, decorated with trash and treasures and more than a few unfinished projects.

You get what you put in.

Its been a dream for a long time. I`ve been buying The Horse forever, none of the other magazines really had any relevance to me at the time. I didn`t have any money for any type of motorcycle at that time let alone a fancy one, so to see a bunch of dudes building their own bikes from the ground up and being able to read a bit about it was pretty rad. I still have the  `04 Indian Larry tribute issue hanging in my shop.

That tank is kind of a tribute in itself to the original few bikes and guys I saw that even got me obsessed with this stuff....That tank originally was a Indian Larry dished tank and the engraved centre section certainly wasn`t my idea. Johnny Chops "True Blue" had an engraved centre section just like it, done by Terrera. That thing was amazing. One day I`d love to learn the true art of chisel engraving. One day.

Thanks to all the guys at the Horse and the people who weren`t given props in the magazine. I did a big `ol spec sheet that wasn`t included, but no worries I`ll just do it now. Big thanks to Braeden for the use of his camera and some of the pics, as well as Kirb for the wiring help. It was pretty cool that the issues arrival at the local 7/11 was a day before my birthday this year, I guess it worked out, being that we get everything super late up here in Canada.

Free knife.

This is what you get when you take a broken pipe liner file, an old hammer with a broken handle, a small chunk of brass and a few hours time. Old files make perfect knives, if they can turn steel into dust they can definately cut some shit. I annealed the hardened blade for 2 hours and then sharpened it. Its unbelievable how well it holds an edge, even after a weekend of splitting fire wood.

"Oil Tanks"

XS650 Battery and electrical boxes.

I realized no one was making a product that hid the battery and also attempted to fill that large open space in the frame where an oil tank and/or transmission would be on most other motorcycles. These are my answer to the problem. The larger one is big enough to hide all your wiring, regulators, switches and ofcourse the battery.

Patina.

XS650 Timing cover.

I made a few of these, the fabrication on these is fairly simple. It`s made the way it looks like it was made, hand formed with a ball peen hammer over a wooden buck. The old fashioned way. It was chemically patina`d and laquered to protect its finish for years to come. Fits in place of stock cover.

First Build - Long ago

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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