Through the eye of the needle….

Finally got a clean 30degree practice miter around, shiny and stacked tonight. What a relief. Was like a dream.

Machined up two more practice sets, filed, drilled and cleaned them up. Ready to hit tomorrow night hopefully.

As soon as I am satisfied…it's go time on Dan's frame.

ONWARD.

Burn Baby Burn

After several hours of trial and error in the weld pool (or the doo doo that once was a weld pool...) I finally cracked a good portion of the code last night with some help from Gary at UBI...stand up guy that Gary. A few tips on welder setup and things started to click. I think another couple of hours learning how to keep things even cleaner than I have been and tightening up my beads a little and I'll be ready to lay into Dan's Bike.......

2012 Resolutions :
Finish Dan's Bike, and maybe my own.
Write more.
Yoga regimen by 40!

Onward

Aligned….

Wow, it worked. The jig is straight and adjusted. Now just need to get my welds a little cleaner and we are off to the races here.



This junction is some fun mitering…once it's cleaned up it'll fit up nice.



Barlow is still completely nonplussed by the whole affair.



Welding day #1 was a frustrating bummer. Flows all wrong, settings all off….just a bunch of trial and error on some practice miters I made. Some progress however….can't deny. Even if it all looked like the tin man's poo. I just spent the past hour machining up some more practice miters that I'm gonna hit later this week.

onward.

Testing, 1, 2, 3...

Creeping towards a triangle. Layout looks good.



Tube, this is tube...and head tube. Play nice.



Sliders…for fun.

Steinbeck Rules

"You know, if chickens had government and church and history, they would take a distant and distasteful view of human joy. Let any gay and hopeful thing happend to a man, and some chicken goes howling to the block." - Samuel, East of Eden

Making chips...

First off, I would like to introduce you all to Mr Bender. Mr Bender? A few words?


"Hiyinz. Where's all the dames? Who's got a light in this joint?"

Ok, there you go. A gentleman from the gun.

Working on Dan's bike tonight. Assignment, miter top tube.



Gigi all cockeyed and all. She's feeling it.



Digging in.


Thanks Dan for picking up big boy here…he was hungry.

Fall 2011

Yep, Fall 2011. So much water under the bridge. So much thought, frustration, time, dreaming, believing, stress, resignation….all of it.

Behind.

Almost there. Bike #1 in the jig. Fire soon.

ONWARD