Not to my taste but the vision and workmanship is there!

My opinion, Victors where ugly ducks to begin with. Them being made in England dosent save them from that. Like a guy wanting to chop or mod a Pinto , I say go for it, can't make it any worse than how it looked coming off the show room floor.

The lamp shade does show signs of craft, you have to shape a form out styrofoam , cut and grind glass. Then it looks like he used both lead came and copper foil . and a ton of sodder. Easy to do no . The end result silly very very silly. but Crafty yep.

Craftmanship is very relative, a person who has a torch and welder has a total different type of craft than a guy who has a lathe and milling machine and still yet the guy who uses a cnc to shape metal. I think we can honestly look at this bike and see that the person who built it didnt have an over abundance of equipment. There was definetly skill in many aspects of the bike. Heating, bending and making metal conform to what you want is a skill. Even the da da esque aproach for looking for bits in antique stores or junck yards or wherever he got them is a fun idea.

The fact that the lampshade used was almost certainly store bought, means that should the BSA owner wish to upgrade he could easily fit a second one for a more modern twin lampshade look.

I'm sure he made the lampshade/fairing , I wonder if he made some macrame saddle bags would it be taking to far for good taste ? Might as well go for the total hard core arts and crafts look!