A great Saturday night party , and new YOTC sculpture.

This weekend we put together a little art viewing/music listening/wine tasting get together at Wine Sync in downtown Mount Clemens. We had a great turnout of friends, family, and supporters, and it looked like a good time was had by all. Darla and Terry performed a very eclectic set of acoustic songs, from Aretha Franklin's "Chain of Fools" and Patty Griffin's "Up to the Mountain" to "Use Somebody" by the Kings of Leon and yes, even Michael Jackson's "Bad"! I'm hoping we can do something similar in the future, and next time I'm going to make sure we get video.

We also raffled off a Chopper for Charity(Bike #100), which raised some money for Lifebuilders Detroit and Home Fur-ever.

This week's motorcycle sculpture is a Harley Ironhead Sportster, it's bike #103 overall and the 13th YOTC bike.

Harley Davidson Heritage Softail Classic

Here is a commissioned piece I finished this week. Contact me for info on custom work!

"Point of Impact" Motorcycle Sculpture

This is the 12th YOTC bike, and the 101st motorcycle sculpture overall that I've done. This Panhead chopper on the auction block for two more days.

The progression of a M1 Abrams tank

I'd like to thank my family, my friends, and everyone else that have served our country in the United States military.

I can't lie, I didn't do this piece because it is Veteran's Day...but I think it's kind of cool that it turned out that way.

I took some liberties with the tank to give it a "moving forward" look.

The turret rotates 360* and the barrel moves up and down.

Click on the pics for high res versions, and check out the flickr album for a bunch more.

The progression of a Harley

Last week I made a sculpture of 1991 Harley Custom Softail. I snapped some pics of it with my Palm Pre as I went.

not much yet..



the Evo is in the frame, the tank is on, and the forks are attached..



the rear wheel is on as well as the rest of the frame...



rear fender and seats are in place...



next is the exhaust...



front fender, headlight, handlebars, ballgame.



The finished product:

Bike Number 100, Harley Knucklehead "Nail in the Coffin"

Year of the Chopper #11 is also the 100th bike over all that I've built. The first 4 were made as gifts 5-6 years ago when I was first learning how to weld. The last 96 have all been made since the beginning of 2008.

This is a Knucklehead powered Harley, and you can bid on it here for 3 more days.

1957 Harley Davidson Panhead

This is my take on a '57 Harley, with a panhead motor, drag bars and and a sissy bar, and a pretty cool set of pipes. It was "inspired" by this motorcycle, all though I put my own twist on it.



This is the 10th Year of the Chopper bike, and all proceeds from it's sale will go to charity.