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« Reply #600 on: February 27, 2015, 09:05:45 PM » |
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Wow indeed.
As Mr Olds pointed out on FaceBook, it rather raises the stakes for the rest of the bike build now doesn't it.
I ain't rich & this work's costing more than I paid for the original donor bike, but I really don't intend building anything else, (apart from a joint project with Loony at some point), so I figure I'll do it right & have something I can enjoy for years to come, (I hope). Tony really is a craftsman in the old style & I'm pretty sure he'll become as well known as Don Blocksidge for example, who's been the name in gunsmith & bike engraving for 40 years at least. So I'm looking on this as buying an artist's work before he becomes super famous.
The man himself.
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« Reply #601 on: February 28, 2015, 08:41:41 AM » |
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Why do every five minute job take all day, and
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« Reply #602 on: February 28, 2015, 10:11:15 AM » |
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Great craftmanship, see he has the fingers well taped, I get that a lot. Plus I love those tats. If I was younger I'd copy them.  |
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« Reply #603 on: February 28, 2015, 08:23:46 PM » |
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 We've been trading messages for a while now. Crazy guy but crazy good. First part finished. He rubs black paint into the low spots then polishes the high spots to achieve this effect. I've basically told him I want the frog on both sides of the engine, facing forwards, & the words Junkyard Frog on the right side, (not enough room for "Greener than a" but it doesn't really need it), then to go crazy with the rest & do whatever he thinks appropriate, but keep it frog or junkyard related. So I'm expecting lillypad or bullrush styled filigree or loads of tiny spanners or frog footprints, something like that. We'll have to wait & see. Just PayPal'd him a large wadge of cash to cover the first half of it. Super stoked about the results so far.
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« Reply #604 on: February 28, 2015, 08:27:04 PM » |
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Does he really have a stove pipe coming out of his head? Does that make him a proper Steam Punk?
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« Reply #605 on: February 28, 2015, 09:37:35 PM » |
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He looks like a right nutter! |
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« Reply #606 on: February 28, 2015, 09:58:26 PM » |
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Yeah, but the best people always do Bobbi.  |
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« Reply #607 on: March 02, 2015, 07:04:02 PM » |
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Very nice that verrrrrry nice
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« Reply #608 on: March 02, 2015, 09:05:33 PM » |
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Yeah, but the best people always do Bobbi. Oh definitely, that's what I was saying (I should know that, after all!) |
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« Reply #609 on: March 05, 2015, 09:59:30 PM » |
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I,ve seen loads of his work on facebook, its amazing. And yes, the guys a nutter...in a good way. I seen him at the kickback bike show last september...hes about 6ft 13inch tall |
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« Reply #610 on: March 06, 2015, 09:16:35 AM » |
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He lives in Spain with his punk wife, but he's got a mate in Yorkshire who's a machinist. They were both going to a bike show in Germany, so I sent my cases to Yorkshire, then his mate took them to Germany & passed them onto Tony, who took them home to Spain. My bike's still only half built so I've told him to just fit me in around other jobs. No desperate rush & it'll give me time to save up the rest of the cash. |
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« Reply #611 on: March 06, 2015, 08:44:01 PM » |
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Proposed lettering for the lefthand side. It'll basically be the same thing on both sides, with the empty space filled with curly filigree work.
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« Reply #612 on: March 09, 2015, 11:33:31 AM » |
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work of art. i love the lettering |
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« Reply #613 on: March 09, 2015, 01:15:26 PM » |
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Yeah, that was just a mock-up on tracing paper. We both think the name should only be on one side of the engine, but he'd thought on the left & I'd assumed on the right. Can't go on the left though cos it'll be partly hidden by the exhaust. The righthand case is bigger & is easier to see when the bike's parked up on it's side stand.
So same lettering but on the other side.
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« Reply #614 on: March 09, 2015, 10:03:43 PM » |
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Tony's an ex tattooist, so cleans the cases up, blows them over with a light coat of matt white paint, then draws the design on tattoo transfer paper before laying it onto the case.
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