I'm with ya Glen..............those are only tools of the trade!
Razors are another thing.................:y
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I suffer from such things as RAD but right now I'm suffering from pain all over after laying my Harley down two days ago when an impaired driver going the opposite direction made a left turn in front of me!:gaah:
Too many to count, but it is a good sign that they were even more before.
The bad thing is I am getting an itch to get a few new ones to try...
I have Norton's, Naniwa's, Shapton's, two select Ardennes Coticule's, a Charnley Forest, two chinese naturals, a Thuringian, a King 1k, a hard Japanese stone & an 8" Swaty. I also have a few Carborundum stones. I do need a 30k Shapton & I believe I'll be done with stones. After watching Glen's honing video's, I have all the Shapton's he has except for the 30k. I do have a Naniwa Chosera 1k also which I love very much. It's a fast cutter. Glen's video's are awesome!!! Thanks Glen!
Get well soon engine46.
How many? Well, one more now ....
Cheers, Steve
Thank you Steve56. I'm sitting here sore all over. Lucky no broken bones. I was waiting on a W&B blade I won on eBay last week & the seller was here on the other side of town. When I checked the tracking number, it had gone 250 miles away & this morning showed back up here & after about two hrs it said out for delivery. My mail showed up but was a different carrier that looked lost. I didn't get my blade but instead got someone else's mail so I guess my blade is going to the wrong address as well & I'll probably never see it!:gaah:
Yes, I'm an old Harley rider too, have a '56 Hydra Glide I'm working on (slowly) in retirement. You fall off one even at low speed and it feels like someone beat you all over your body with a broomstick. Hard.
Mail is crazy. I bought a razor from a guy in Dallas, he sent it 2-day priority and it went to Minneaplois area where it spent 3 days before going back to Dallas, then to me in Knoxville. Seven days total. I send stones to Alex in Sonoma, takes 2 days. I send razors to a friend in Rhode Islnad, it takes 3. Go figure.
Cheers, Steve
Yep, lucked into it in the 1980s. It's all original except someone had cut the toolbox tab off which I replaced. Transmission is totally shot now but that's about all that's wrong with it. And an interesting tidbit, it's an FLH, not the FL. They produced less than 450 FLHs in '57 IIRC as the high compression models were not as popular apparently.
Cheers, Steve
If I slid a Harley down 1/4 mile of Thurigen V/S coticule how much would be left?:hmmm:
Mine may have been a police bike, it had the hand shift and I bought the last conversion kit they made that Colboch HD had to convert it to foot shift. Transmission lid, cables, brackets, and levers. Thanks for that info, I never thought of that!
It was repainted badly in black when I got it, and of course when I made the transition to foot shift I replaced the tanks, so no idea about the original color. I'm not sure if the fenders were original, the rear was in bad shape and I replaced it.
Yes, last of the hard tails.
Cheers, Steve
This is in the 60"s early when my Uncle still had it.
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Just be careful out there. I'm an experienced rider & was a factory certified Harley-Davidson service tech for many years & this happened in less than a tenth of a second. The drunks are out with little or no regard for no one else at all but instead concentrating on having a buzz & driving. This was the typical driver going in the opposite direction, then decided to make a left turn in front of me. He couldn't hardly talk & was trying to get me to exchange insurance info before the cops got there & I said NOPE!!! When they got there, they said he had delayed response & appeared impaired, so he was on something. They told me he was most likely going to jail.
Any biker members, please watch out & ride safe. The idiots are out!!!!!!!!!!
Got a couple of others but not so pretty!
Thanks for posting! Those vintage bikes are all art. Good times for sure.
Cheers, Steve
Yep, I also learned not to ride at certain times of the day/week (when school let out, ie when people may be in a hurry or distracted), and to avoid intersections with high accident rates. Avoid malls at Christmas when motorcycling....
I don't know how to avoid drunks, they're ubiquitous.
Tip of the hat to the mods, were pretty OT!
Cheers, Steve
It is hard to avoid the drunks because you never know what they're gonna do! The scooter I just went down on was my '03 100th Anniversary FXDWG.
Here's my '75 Shovel I've been building old school all the way. It has a 93 inch shovel, suicide shift, wishbone frame, kick only & I have a Morris M5 magneto for it. Notice my shifter knob is a cut down camshaft from an old evo. I wanted to be different. Some have 8 ball shifters or a small piston. I also have some shaved fork lowers & a spool 21" front wheel for it that aren't on it yet.
We should start a new thread.
Or at least post here.. http://straightrazorpalace.com/conve...ymous-157.html
Attachment 188253Cool shovel! I have a 13 ball on my suicide shift. Vintage glass knobs are nice too! iMOP hand shift on a Harley is the only way to go.
The best American who ever lived? John Wayne. It's got to be Audie Murphy and Dwight D Eisenhower, and everyman that went ashore at Normandy.
I think this thread used to have something to do with hones.
Aren't hones used for cylinders?
See post 145. :shrug:
Sunnen makes the best cylinder hones there are. Try to pick up the Sunnen "drill press" stand to go with them.
O.K. back to HAD. It bit again, just ordered this Nakayama kiita from Takeshi-San (his image). Very smooth, very fine, and fast. The fast peaked my interest too, that means removing the last hone marks quickly. I have one other softer but very fine hone from him, a Hatanaka Hatahoshi branded stone that's arguably my best bench stone. Velvety feel yet very, very fine.
Cheers, Steve
That sounds exactly like this stone I posted at BNB. Very very smooth, soft velvety feel when honing but puts on almost as fine an edge as my Asagi.
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Gotta love stones like that. The other 9.2 stones from him are actually finer than any asagi I have except one, a 9.4 from him that's kind of a kiita/asagi mix.
The best ones produce a very sharp edge that actually feels like nothing, or dull, but produces a close, smooth shave that lasts a long time.
Cheers, Steve
My collection so far. Chosera 1K, Norton 1000/220, Norton 4000/8000, DMTs coarse and fine, Some old synthetic stone.
Second line : Purple welsh slate ( sold as LM on ebay), Dark welsh slate ( sold as DT on ebay), Chinese 12 K, Sucháček Moravian slate, Small Coticule, tiny broken Arkansas, Charnley forest.Attachment 188616Attachment 188617Attachment 188618
I have a Charnley Forest I haven't tried yet but can't wait to................
Try it, it is a beautiful stone ;)