Wood/Metal Bike Prototype

The idea behind this project was to create a piece with the view of sustainability. This is a reclaimed/modified bike, more to come soon(er or later ha)!

Anyways..

Here's the bike all glued up, with a finish, and all the components on...

I ornamented the stem to add a bit of class
These were horizontal dropouts that i cut and re welded to be track ends

It rides fairly well, my only complaint is the rake of the fork is very dramatic... so I might go back and fix that. Overall I think it turned out pretty well.

I'm planning on continuing to refine and build these bikes... I'm viewing this bike as a prototype of future builds so expect to see more!

Also I plan to start producing handlebars of various bends/laminates for sale... I'm wicked excited!

Process Shots of the Bike

so this is the jig in a vacuum press that is gluing up 11 veneers of red oak with epoxy to form the handlebars...

Everythings set..
This is the start of a possible bike rack? They're the cut offs from the tubing I turned, they're a bunch of triangular strips, I glued them into the recesses they create then cut it in half and glued the two together width wise, ill post a photo of that soon...

Current Ride. The Brown one

New Bike Project

So I've been working on this new bike, I'm replacing the top/down/ and seat tube with Black Walnut/Maple. I also re-welded the horizontal dropouts into track ends. I'll hopefully be making the handlebars and the seat design this week.



veneered black walnut handlebars , possibly paint near the stem to look like antlers with leather grips, should be pretty sweet.

been pretty busy heres a quick update on my new truck

Yota Bomber

1991 Toyota Pickup Ext. 4x4 auto. To make a long story short, we had it checked out, the mechanic wrote "smoked" on the diagnosis so it got sent back. The amazing thing is despite the list of problems it still ran well, power steering was a bit shot, a true testament to Toyotas.




Anyways this truck led us to another which in a week or so will hopefully be in this ones place. Its a 1991 Toyota Pickup Std. 4x4 manual, Almost completely rebuilt.

TALL BIKE: Update

So the Lamplighter is functioning..barely. The bottom (top) bracket still needs grease, i want to change the wheels, a brake, and the handlebars are actually a long seat post, but the test ride went well. pretty gnarly

BIKESKUNX

more details/photos soon to come!

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TALL BIKE! The BIKE SKUNX first lamplighter!

Seth helped me out to make this tall bike. Here's the first faze completed...conjoining the bikes. It's not perfect i.e. the top fork skews to the right, but it does have a chain guard that makes up for that. Will upload more photos very soon.


badass

Thrice the Staaayles of Writin!

Newly Aquired

New Bike

Seth just built up this bike for me, pretty badass.

Artist: Eric Ackerson

A week or two ago Eric Ackerson gave me these two silkscreens, they are actually intended to be used with 3-D glasses which is pretty badass. He's got a gnarly portfolio so you should check out his stuff at his BlackBook site from the link above. Anyways here are the prints...

Newly Aquired

John and I were riding bikes on Munjoy when we saw a sign for Antique Tools. This guy was selling his stuff, I picked these two items up for ten bucks...

POEM

11 Lines from the Bowels of the Beast

1. Luke
2. Inventive, Visionary, Nihilistic
3. Son of Darth Vader
4. Lover of Anarchy, Paranoia and Violence
5. Who feels Posi, Love and Hostility
6. Who needs Burritos, Bikes and Spikes
7. Who gives Grease, Grime and Filth
8. Who fears Zits, Drill Bits and Circle Pits
9. Who would like to see Punk Rock Shows, more Forests and a Technological Downfall
10. Resident of this barren wasteland
11. Butler

RARE OOP!

Al, Kevin and Myself spent the other day making the first run of shirts for the Scarehouse. Better get your hands on one of these while there around rare oop!


Red on Tye Dye, Glow in the Dark on black, Orange on Green

Blue on Tan, Baseball T, and Tye Dye
TYE DYE ON TYE DYE(slighty pictured below, second from the top)
check out the Scarehouse blog for a fuller story...