Big Steve's V Twin Seat

[Big Steve]

A customer wanted the picture of the engine in his hard tail 79 Shovel Chop tooling onto his seat, he gave me a photo of the engine to copy this is it done, hope you like it, and thanks for the suggestions to tool the fins on the motor i made a tool to do it in the end, let me know what you think, any better way to do fins let me know.

Regards, Steve.

[dirtclod]

Your seat turned out great and the fins look great to. Your customer should be real happy.

[Spinner]

Looks real good Steve, glad you figured out the fins, they look nice.

Chris

[dscott]

looks great fins turned out good

[joker]

Hey Steve I think it turned out great! I did one for a buddie for his shovel, but mine dont have the detail that yours does, great job!

[TroyS]

Very nice! Love the detail! and the color!!

[Bobby hdflame]

A customer wanted the picture of the engine in his hard tail 79 Shovel Chop tooling onto his seat, he gave me a photo of the engine to copy this is it done, hope you like it, and thanks for the suggestions to tool the fins on the motor i made a tool to do it in the end, let me know what you think, any better way to do fins let me know.

Regards, Steve.

Steve,

Very nice job, great detail! What kind of tool did you come up with to do the fins? Got a picture?

[Big Steve]

Thanks Guys for your comments, had i have known about your seat Joker i would have PM you to ask about the fins, how you did them, nice seat mate, Bobby here is a picture of the tool i made it was an old lacing punch with the prongs cut off, filled flat and a radius on one corner to act as beveller a sharp corner other end to get into the pushrod tubes, this is how i did them, first i bevelled around the outside of the cylindersas you would on a normal job but DON'T cut the line , as you need a softer edge for the tool to run when you have done the tooling af the gaps between the fins, then i cut the fin lines with swivelknife and a straight edge, these lines are the gap between the fins, then i used a modeling tool to open up the cuts to just smaller than the thickness of the tool, then place the tool into the cut keeping it square and central and tap it with the maul to form the gap , work along the line till you get to the puhsrod tube, use the sharp end to make a clean finish the rounded end is then used to run into the bevell on the outside of the cylinders leaving no tool marks, use the modeller in the fin gaps to blend any marks, i have thin background tool that i used to put bit of texture in to hold the antique finish, i hope that makes sense, if not let me know and i will try to explaine it in another way, and again thanks for your help with the fin cutting ideas, the link from Chris on David Maine is worth lookin at,

Hope this picture helps,

Regards, Steve.