Custom Bike Building Basics

Jon Kosmoski’s NEW Kustom Painting Secrets, and Custom Bike Building Basics by Chris Callen are scheduled to ship to us later this week, which means we will be getting them out to our loyal readers next week. I’m pleased to say that we have individual back orders for both books. Krista in our office has all the envelopes labeled and ready to go – all we need now is the books themselves.

I’m writing this blog from Florida, where I’ve been busy attending a wedding for an old friend, and taking photos that will surely end up in a new Wolfgang book scheduled for the fall of this year: How To: Airbrush, Pinstripe & Goldleaf. Today I’m lucky enough to be in Plant City, north of Tampa, where the talented Mr. Dave Knoderer, owner of Letterfly Pinstriping, puts stripes and airbrush designs on everything from Ford trucks to Harley-Davidson motorcycles. Shown nearby is the Air Force emblem being placed on an Ultra, and both our Facebook pages have a shot of the more traditional pinstripe design he created on a F150 yesterday.

Though Dave from Letterfly is very capable with an airbrush, he creates a lot of his images the old-skool way, by hand with One-Shot paint and a lettering quill.

At the Wolfgang Circus, we are busy adding items to our juggling act. Last week we officially added one more ball to the two or three already in the air: Custom Bike Building Basics by Chris Callen of Cycle Source magazine fame. Chris approaches the subject of building bikes from scratch a little differently than I do, and that’s probably a good thing.

Chris’ outline includes things like: Setting up a Shop, Working with Steel, Love thy Welder, Getting Ready, Tearing it Down, Sheet Metal Fab, and Saddle Work, along with three start-to-finish assembly chapters. The assembly chapters document the construction of three bikes – none of these are pro street bullets or expensive over-chromed choppers. No, these bikes are way more down-home than that.

Look for a new spin on building bikes from scratch – done with a lot of help from Chris Callen from Cycle Source Magazine.

Chris’ juggling act promises to be ready for viewing this spring, so be sure to buy your tickets now before they’re all gone.

Hobo Stew is just one example of the art, compliments of Darren McKeag, we are using to open each of Chris’ chapters.

At the Wolfgang Circus, we are busy adding items to our juggling act. Last week we officially added one more ball to the two or three already in the air: Custom Bike Building Basics by Chris Callen of Cycle Source magazine fame. Chris approaches the subject of building bikes from scratch a little differently than I do, and that’s probably a good thing.

Chris’ outline includes things like: Setting up a Shop, Working with Steel, Love thy Welder, Getting Ready, Tearing it Down, Sheet Metal Fab, and Saddle Work, along with three start-to-finish assembly chapters. The assembly chapters document the construction of three bikes – none of these are pro street bullets or expensive over-chromed choppers. No, these bikes are way more down-home than that.

Custom Bike Building Basics. Caption: Look for a new spin on building bikes from scratch – done with a lot of help from Chris Callen from Cycle Source Magazine.

Chris’ juggling act promises to be ready for viewing this spring, so be sure to buy your tickets now before they’re all gone.

Hobo Stew is just one example of the art, compliments of Darren McKeag, we are using to open each of Chris’ chapters.