The Professor and I

Emil aka The Professor has this suuuper sweet flathead, when I finish the Knucklehead they Will make a sweet pair :)

Cheapster

Parkerizing is cheaper than the cheapest raddle Can of paint, and looks a lot better because you are able to see the exact shape of the material and it doesn't chip when you tighten things, therefore it really fits my budget Knucklehead :)
Today I did a few more screws - for the lifter bases and I finished my top mount.

Knucklehead

The Knucklehead project is coming together, I still have a lot to do, but I do a little bit all the time, so hopefully it will soon be ready :)
I'm in the progress fabricating the Engine topmount, all the chrome allen screws in the cam cover has been replaced with streight slotted parkerized screws, the oil lines for lubrication of the cylinder heads, has been covered with black shrinkhose instead of shiny steel.
Yesterday I dechromed the rockernuts and parkerized them, until now they where just covered with black tape to make it easier to imagine the parkerized look.. Pictures will come soon.
I have been fiddeling around with a cast aluminum rail that I'm planing to install on the front fender, I really like the shape.

Front fenders

When you Think of traditionalist Bobbers, you usually don't cobine the style with using front fenders, but when you look at old pictures, from back then, some bikes actually had some awesome front fender solutions.
In Scandinavia the weather really sucks from time to time, so I accepted that I have to deal with a front feder, at least for a rainy Day :)
I had a Hydra Glide front fender, but I really prefere the springer front fender, so I made a swap with my freind Red.

To make a nice feder I narrowed it one inch and chopped off a lot of the length. To keep the nice old look I transferred the pressed tip of the original fender to my short version.

Heavy machinery

Yesterday my Knucklehead Engine arrived in the workshop, it really suites the bike.
I also painted the tail light, that is a cool idea I think

Crocker reference

Today I recieved my new casted Crocker tail light for the Knucklehead bobber, that light is a piece of art.

Parkerized

This weekend Nicolas and I have been playing with some more parkerizing, I have parkerized my dash, the horn switch, and my front axel :)
Before the parkerizing of the dash I drilled two holes for some dark amber jewel shaped glass lenses (almost black without lights on) that I found at eBay

Merry Christmas

Knucklehead stuff

Yesterday I chopped down the T-bar 11cm to fit the new seat; an orignal K-model perfekt patina solo seat (pictures will come soon).

The GEN/OIL light is welded up on the dashboard and everything is dechromed, ready for parkerizing.
The speedo is original Harley Davidson, and so are the military ignition switch.

Back In Black

A few days ago I painted the tanks, I tried to make the same finish as the rear fender, to make it blend inn.

Knucklehead update

Finally the tanks are ready for the black paint job after being chopped down, and the tank emblems mounts are welded to the tanks.

Tank emblems

To make the gas tanks a bit more sexy, a long time ago I decided to install a set of tank emblems, the only problem was that all the nice original/ original period accessory once really didn't fit the budget with a price of 200-300$... plus shipping, plus taxes.
For that reason I decided to try to see if I could get away with installing a set of replica tank emblems.

I had a set of 1959-1969 replica emblems on stock, and except for the red color I like the design, so I had to at least change the color.
I started with removing the red, after that I gave the chrome some fake patina, and for the last thing I repainted the letters and the background.
For the background I chose dark blue with inspiration from the blue Comiskey tank emblems.