Finished paint minus pin striping basking in the sunset outside my shop. a lot of firsts with this paint job with the panel technique and learning how to surface guild 23K gold. Next up in learning how to pinstripe to outline the gold.
Base coat and panel designs laid out on the tins and the frame. Based, gilded with gold leaf and clear coated.
My 69 fully body worked ready for primer. Ready to mix up a custom color.
Swapped over most of the parts that are being reused on my shovel rebuild.
Happy with the new look. Mounts for the rear half up next
Today begins the rebuild on my 69 shovelhead to fully complete the build with paint, chrome and some new parts.
First big step was completing this new frame. Oem 69 swingarm frame that i cut up and fabricated a hardtail for using ‘Hardtail choppers’ axle plates from John.
Windowed the neck leaving the undrilled neck lock in place and added some details for molding around the axle plates and legs.
The front peaks i formed from two pieces of sheet metal each and trimmed to fit the space and flow with the frame.
New sissybar for my 69, fully tig welded stainless steel construction.
Photos from the weekend down in Baja shot by my dood Mark.
Finished the fabrication on my new rear brake system for my 69. The goal here was to create a mechanical looking pedal/linkage system with a hidden master cylinder to actuate the hydraulic drum brake.
the pedal is attached to a shaft that using the stock crossover shaft on the panhead frame and linkage to the cam.
Master cylinder is hidden sitting sideways behind my transmission and actuated by a turning cam to push the plunger.
Instead of running a hydraulic brake switch, i kept the mechanical linkage switch and mounted it underneath the transmission out of sight to avoid having extra brake line fittings/switches.
All parts manually machined out of stainless steel.
New pipes i fabricated for my 69 in the raw. Finished for chrome. I made 1/4'“ ribs and tig welded them with silicon bronze the help the transition from straight pipe into the megaphone to help them flow better and also one the the ends for some extra flare.
