Thanks FE.Fast Eddie said:Excellent work there ELMZY, you continue to impress. Please keep the updates coming.
About the only thing you didn't explain fully was... the handle bars. What are they exactly?
What's the paintwork plans for the tinware?
ELMZY said:Thanks FE.Fast Eddie said:Excellent work there ELMZY, you continue to impress. Please keep the updates coming.
About the only thing you didn't explain fully was... the handle bars. What are they exactly?
What's the paintwork plans for the tinware?
I bought the bars locally. Genuine A.N. 06-4132, UK or EU Interstate I think.
They were 31 1/2" wide, 2 1/2 rise, 5" pull back.
Too wide for me - especially if I use bar end mirrors.
So, I cut 2" off each end and they're just under 28" total width now.
It's all about triangulation for me. Wide bars tend to open me up too much - and get uncomfortable on a long ride.
Paint work, hmmm - I haven't been drinking this time so hopefully it won't come across as a ramble.
I used to be an Auto Spraypainter back in another life so I'll be brushing the cobwebs off and hitting it with 2 pack basecoat and clear - when the time comes.
I'll be making my own stencils for the logos (on a vinyl cutter). I'll stick them on a silver base, spray with either Gunmetal Grey Met or Graphite, peel the decals off and Topcoat Clear the lot.
No colour on this one - 50 shades of Grey so to speak.
No I didn't know that he sells them. I'm trying hard to do as much as I can myself on this build - if I'm capable and the quality is good.Fast Eddie said:You do know that Matt supplies stencils for his very subtly modified / neat version of the logo's ?
ELMZY said:No I didn't know that he sells them. I'm trying hard to do as much as I can myself on this build - if I'm capable and the quality is good.Fast Eddie said:You do know that Matt supplies stencils for his very subtly modified / neat version of the logo's ?
Although, I am following his lead and modifying my own early version of the logo and scaling it down to 5".
I agree the later versions are a little chunky and oversized for a Roadster tank.
I'm using Silhouette Studio Software.
Thanks for the link gortnipper.gortnipper said:You can also get vinyl transfers on your side of the ditch - http://norton-decals.letsfixit.info/index.html
I got some for my restomod and although I havent tried them yet, they seem pretty nice.
A change in circumstances FE.Fast Eddie said:ELMZY... you've gone quiet... wassapnin with the build... no slacking man...!
ELMZY said:A change in circumstances FE.Fast Eddie said:ELMZY... you've gone quiet... wassapnin with the build... no slacking man...!
Prioritising cash flow - gunna be lean Christmas.
"Such is Life".
Unlike the Irish/Aussie battler that coined that phrase - I'll live on ........ long enough to get the bike going hopefully.
I'm in the process of "recycling" assets so I should have a few shekels for the Norton by early 2017.