Fillets all round.

The final show bike of the 2010 season was just completed and I’m happy with how it came out and pleased it will be seen in person by so many. There is something about working with fillets that I love. They start out a bit rough and dull and as you start working with them and they start to take shape. They have file marks and emery scratches all over them and I can see the work I’ve done and what still needs doing. I can see my hand in them. Then as the process goes on they look less and less like something I’ve made and more like something that just ‘is’ and has always been. At some point, after they have had the final polish and have been exposed to the air for long enough to tarnish just a bit, they look more like something that has grown organically as opposed to something I made. Honestly this is an odd feeling and hard to explain. When they are done and they look like they’ve grown on their own I tend to miss the ones I made. Oddly I feel funny taking credit for them once they’ve hit this point. Hell they just grew – I didn’t do anything but watch them grow.

Well maybe I watered them a bit and gave them some sun but they did the hard work.

I’ll get some good studio shots of the bike soon and share them in this space.

Thanks for reading.

Dave

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One response to “Fillets all round.”

1. steve garro says:

   January 19, 2010 at 7:13 am

   great observation! I polish-polish-polish & an not satisfied, but leave for awhile and then think, what? these look awseome! still, man – your stuff is smoooooth……Garro.