Almost ready to weld.......

As you see, the 1 3/8" DOM tubing showed up from Online Metals this AM so we could finish off the double sleeves we needed. The UPS guy also dropped off one of Fab Kevin's stainless steel oil tank kits with the modified components I asked for. Kevin also cut me a one-off set of his hoop "Moon tank" style mounts - the first set he's done like that to fit his 5 1/2" dia. stainless tank. Wadda guy, and, his hair is still perfect! Should look killer, but they're for another project I have here. I'll post it up when I get everything finished

Part-timer Steve and I got some work out of the way on a couple projects, then we moved over to the VL framework. What we were after was the familiar classic style of double sleeving on the tubing junctions that the VL, and RL frames came with from the factory. I think it's coming out pretty nice........

Here's how the double sleeve came out by the seatpost forging.

Here you can see the double sleeve finial at the end of the downtube sleeve, and how the socket for the lower tank tube is fishmouthed to fit the downtube.

Here's how the neck will look, minus the neck gusset, and the lower tank tube. The neck gusset will have to go in before the lower tank tube does. Like I said in previous posts, I'm trying to get a neck that will look somewhat "stock" , more than "custom". There will be a 1" wide x 1/4" thick plate flat along the backside edge of the final gusset shape to give more of a "neck forging" look to it. You'll see when we get there.

And, this is approximately how the lower tank tube will fit into place. The upper motor mount will go off of this lower tube. I'm not sure if I'll do a triangulated tubular mount, or if I'll do a boxed and tapered mount yet.