Mudguards for Mr Toad

[voodoo]

Will be good once they are fitted to that Trike and he gets some pic's of it in the sunshine....Voodoo.....

[Manky Monkey]

That's a stunning finish VooDoo.
Is that Doc's old XS750 tank?

[TwistedPatience]

Yep!

[voodoo]

Yep thats the one...I had to do some repair work to it but its come up real nice...Voodoo...

[dracken1]

Most of our classic frame customers  are middle aged onwards and can see the work and time that goes into making a frame. However there are others that see just an overpriced bit of twisted tube. and say so. often adding i could do that for a lot less. My reply is either "well best of luck, bye bye " or the following.

t45 tubing 1 1/8" 17g for example £12.00 per metre (and thats because we buy in quanity)
protool bender £350.00
formers £275.00 each
acetylene
oxygen
flux
bronze welding rods,
a jig
saw ( t45 is very hard)
years of experience to enable you to weld  exotic metals using gas.
to make very close tolerance mitres
electricity and the list goes on.

but mainly my reply to "i can get that for x amount somewhere else or other" is (there you go then , go get it)

[morrag]

Draken, over many years I have rarely found the buying public appreciative of the efforts of the skilled artisan, nor readily appreciative of the cost of his work. However, the same "Joe Public" has no problems with the over inflated bills of the Legal fraternity and their ilk. My father, one of the most skilled Mechanical men I have ever had the privilege of watching has a simple adage when it came to his bill, that was," £1.00 for use of hammer, a further £2.00 for knowing where to hit it!"....Morrag