Coming Along...

The Yamaha is coming along nicely. Last week I had three full days in the garage and the last two days as well. I had cut and mounted a piece of sheet metal to match the frame for th new seat pan and then kinda didn't know what to do or how to make the rest of it. Between Matt and Dad helping me out and looking around at different cafe styled bike online, I figured that something traditional would be easiest to fabricate and would probably look best. Sooooooo...

The yellow Yamaha 360 tank that some may have seen before was cu up and is now the tail piece, the seat back is bent sheet metal butt welded to the new pan. Still need to trim the top and grind the welds down, but for my first time I'm happy with it. There's still quite a bit of work to be done but I'm having fun and can't wait to get riding this bike again soon.

Three days in the garage...

made a speedometer mounting bracket

made new pieces for the frame, spot welded them and the Daddio finished welding them in

made brackets for the tank... it's getting there, I like motorcycles and really want to finish this project for February... paintings, be good, i will return soon :)

Dude, this guy is awesome

I watch the art channel, it's called Ovation TV, and on this channel they have very interesting documentaries and old movies, and lots of other cool things that are very educational in the artistic persuasions. A show I caught the other day called "Driven by Vision", a half hour documentary about the ongoing artwork of one person or group, featured a guy named Jim Bishop. Bishop is a castle builder by hobby, ornamental welder by trade, and what really caught my attention was the first sentence the narrator said after introducing Bishop. "When he was 15, he had saved up enough money from odd jobs to buy a 2.5 acre plot of land in Colorado Springs and started building a one room stone cottage." I looked up and saw this castle, the project is freakin' incredible. This is one guy's project over the past 40 or 50 years and he has taken no help except for donations and visitors, everything here was built by, hand by him... right on!


www.roadsideamerica.com/story/2047 <---one of the few articles I could find on this, not a bad read