Thanks Paul
Looking back at my last post I see it is a bit confusing. I'm talking about Ossa fenders but have put up photos of the Egli front fender. It actually turned out OK.
The Ossa fenders were abit rough here and there ,but decent enough for a dirt bike that sees rough use.
Here is the first set done and mounted:
After the front fender I got busy making up the brake side rear set. I had the set from the GSXR that came with the rear wheel . For a long time I looked at trying to somehow convert it to work on the egli, but with the reverse handing it was a no go. In the end I mounted the hydraulics onto a new piece and milled a brake pedal which looks just like the shifter I made for the other side. Both look much like an original Vincent Gear lever with the adjustment holes for the peg. Vincent loved to make everything adjustable, which makes them a really comfortable bike to ride.
There are lots of raw edges here to file smooth and the whole thing needs polishing, but I have decided to leave the polishing to the last. I think I need to keep at this thing and get it roadable, then worry about the polishing later.
Next I started in on the wide rear fender. This was much wider and a heavier guage than the other fenders. It presented a problem.
With the other fenders, the radius or wheel curvature would start to show up as the hammering was done to form the crown.
As the crown is pounded in, the raidus of the wheel curve gets too tight and has to be manhandled back to the correct curvature.
With the wider heavier materieal, the crown was forming but very little wheel curve was happening. This is because the normal practice is to start forming the crown from the fender centre, which forms tucks or pleats at the edges. It works great up to about a 6" width. At nine inches wide with thick material, the outside edges do not form tucks when the centre is pounded into a crown. The answer came from one of the regulars on the Metalmeet site.
With the wide fender it is necessary to start the crown forming at the outside edges rather than in the centre. Then the tucks form quite nicely and the fender wheel curvature shows up. The tucks get smoothened by use of a dolly and leather faced slapper, then finally the english wheel.
Here is the completed rear fender, laying loose on the rear wheel. I see that I need to tweak that left side just a bit, so I guess it is not quite complete yet!