Spuds

I've been on the mill and lathe the last couple days making spuds for our springers, these are alot of work but are well worth the strength and look..

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Jared's Springer

Finished up a original springer this morning for a customer of ours..

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Sears castings

The castings all welded and finished ground. Next up is pressing in the neck stem and welding them in..

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1914 Sears Front end

In the last couple years I have had the honor to work with Matt and Carl from Carl's Cycle Supply and the projects are always a lot of fun but this one is going to kick ass!! Your going to want to watch these girls come to life..

The main castings after machining in a fixture to straighten out the legs that got bent during the casting process. Next is to make filler pieces to take up the gaps and then weld and file down smooth..

After Welding.. tomorrow I'll finish up the welding and get these ground down so I can press the neck stems in.

Chopping up a Paughco frame

We had a stock Paughco frame come in with a 6" over springer on it.. needless to say the trail was way off and the frame was not even close to how it was intended to sit. Here it is in the jig table before we cut it up.

Then we cut the back bone out and cut the down tubes and raised the neck up to our height to fit the springer. We moved it up just about 5 1/2" and left the stock rake of 36 deg.

Then we added the new backbone and slugged and sleaved the down tubes and added the new backbone brace. When cutting the neck we only removed the backbone material and nothing else to not mess up the look of Paughco's neck area.

Cincinatti

Just got back from the Vtwin show, 1500 miles in 24 hours.. Now if that was only on the bike rather than in Kari's car.. It was great seeing everyone from the lot and being part of all the mayhem that goes with it!