Thursday January 21, 2010

Slow in coming

Bikes have come slowly lately. Challenging custom orders, and the challenges I present myself with each project.

The Supermax Mill is up and running at last. It feels great compared the little grizzly mill/drill. The spindle bearings make a bit of a racket, and it would be nice to get to those soon; and the phase-a-matic has been a mess of trial and error, but otherwise, I’m quite pleased.

Here it cuts a Smallhaul subassembly.

And here is the mixte that’s been hanging around the shop for a bit, finally getting the finishing touches. Off to paint soon.

Some headbadges are tougher than others. This one slowed me down- I had to set it aside and come back. This isn’t finished and is just taped on for the photo. Hopefully it works. Does it? I plan on adding some more interior line work.

I ran with the split tongue/leaf motif on the small tube miters. Fun, organic, lots of contact and only a bit more work.