CM185 cafe racer, polishing a turd..

[Rastas]

Very nice work so far dude, Are you a metal worker by profession? nice job on the tank, whats the plan for the tank, I always liked the look of clear coated metal

Cheers mate, yeh im a metal fabricator but i dont have a trade, self taught.
I know what you mean about clear coated metal, it looks fucken rad, unfortunately this build is for the missus and she wants the next best thing..all black.. Im building an aluminium tank for my gixxer build and tempted to polish that and clear coat it so ill post it when i get it done..

[Satan1]

Cheers mate, yeh im a metal fabricator but i dont have a trade, self taught.
I know what you mean about clear coated metal, it looks fucken rad, unfortunately this build is for the missus and she wants the next best thing..all black.. Im building an aluminium tank for my gixxer build and tempted to polish that and clear coat it so ill post it when i get it done..

I would be tempted to vinyl cut a stencil, spray black, lift stencil, clear coat. Show off your work a bit.

[Rastas]

WT and indeed F.
This oooooooold project is finally slowly going back together, of course mid polishing i got bored and thought drawing all over the side cases with a dremel was a good idea.. thats now debatable but once you start you cant turn back so onwards it is..

[Rastas]

This is suprisingly quite addictive, a little like tattooing, once you start you just want to keep going..

[rudleo]

that looks schweeet! (both the bike and the metal tattooing) good to see you've started this build up again, shall be watching this thread intently

[Tbird tracker]

Love the metal tattooing on the engine case dude. You realy are a talented fucker arn't you.

[HotelBushranger]

Holy shit, I never thought of that before! Fucking epic mate

[loldreagon]

Mate that is actually really cool and original!

Top work.

[Lord_Muck]

I like the etching looks mint, be a bugger to keep the dirt out of the bare scratched Ali unless your going to clear coat/lacquer over it somehow. Although the look could possibly be enhanced by rubbing some sort of black into the etching as a feature.
I'm only a logical thinker so don't let my rantings detract from the mans brilliant artwork, I couldn't even etch my name neatly with a dremmel!