1974 Toyota Land Cruiser FJ40

This 350 powered FJ is ready to hit the trails.

"Back in Black" Year of the Chopper Number 9

Bike Number 97 overall, the 9th YOTC sculpture, is bad and it's black.

"Bonny goes Boom" 1971 Triumph Bonneville

I was looking through the Jockey Journal last week and came across a thread about "raw" bikes, motorcycles left unpainted. There were a couple of cool Triumphs in there that caught my eye, so I built this sculpture.

It is currently available in my store's "Chopper" section.

Supercharged Hemi Model A Sedan

Model Hey! as I like to call it. It was inspired by this blown hemi A sedan "Mother's Worry", a '30 Ford owned by Jalopy Journal member blown32.



I used some scrap galvanized steel for the body. I ground off most of the coating, especially around the edges that were to be welded, and made sure I had good ventilation when tigging it. I think the different levels of grinding on the galvanized give it a cool look. The front radiator is a piece of stainless pipe cut at an angle. It was from a box of stainless pieces my wife's grandfather had given me, stuff that he used to make belt buckles from. The tank in the front is a piece of broken tooling.

Model Hey! is in my online store HERE!

"WILD WEST", We are in week #8 of the Year of the Chopper

This week's sculpture wasn't modeled after any specific motorcycle, but the shape was inspired by the stance of a couple of my favorite West Coast Chopper bikes.

Bid now, Bid high, Bid often!!! All proceeds for 2 great non-profits!

Cornhash and Plato

Just a few shots of these guys that I put together yesterday.

Cornhash was made with a socket, some nuts and bolts and washers, and a piece of roller chain.





Plato is built from nuts, bolts, roller chain, and a steel ball out of a bearing.





They will both be in my Etsy store soon!

Choppers for Charity

We are now auctioning off the 7th Year of the Chopper sculpture. Out of the first 6, 4 of them sold. Rather than re-listing the non-selling bikes on Ebay, I have started a new section, "Choppers for Charity" in my online store. The bikes that make it here will be listed as I would normally list one of my sculptures, at a price more typical of what I would normally sell one for. All proceeds with STILL go to Lifebuilders and Home Fur-Ever!

Right now "Slipstream" and "Smoke" are listed in my store.

YOTC Week #7 "Halftime" Bobber

The 7th Year of the Chopper sculpture is now listed here!

"Halftime" is a single cylinder bobber with a one side dual exhaust.

Slipstream, Year of the Chopper #6

For your bidding pleasure I give you Slipstream, my efforts for the sixth week of this project.

Bid on it HERE

It's raining cats and....ok, no cats, just dogs.

Today the fifth Year of the Chopper Bike sold, and later on tonight I will have the 6th bike up for bidding. Here is a sneak peak from my phone....it will be one of these:




I did some more metal mutts this week, including some cool boxers for Erika and her boyfriend David Lozeau, a west coast artist. Do yourself a favor and check out his work, it's really, really dope. www.davidlozeau.com

Here are their boxers, Papi and Guapo





And a few other pups:

Dyson

Picasso and Jet


Blaze and Jughead