SUBscribed!
Sweet build FB! You are making me itch to get back to my CB450!
Give us some tips on your speed drilling of the sprocket cover and drum housing!
Gersh
I pretty much just "Eye-balled" it. I started w/ a pencil..got tired of marking, grabbed a sharpie marker and a rubber Android phone protector I had punched a hole pattern in for my girlfriend's phone. and dotted every other hole. I did it fast and nasty and then I grabbed my trusty drill took a deep breath and proceeded to ignore where the dots were and guessed at the spacing on the first diamond pattern. It looked decent enough. So I sanded all the markings off and kinda just started judging the distances by sight. I drilled where I did in the pattern i did to intentionally miss where the thicker parts of the pieces were. I dunno how other people get so many damn holes in there stuff?! If I had it to do over again I would have spent more time marking than drilling and guessing. I hit a tiny part of a thick section on the drum break housing...Oh well. I also "skipped" the tip of the drill on one of the holes on it as well.
When I honed all the holes it kinda "smoothed" out mu mistake a little....Also..I really like how the honed edges look. I did all of those w/ a honing bit on a drill press and I kinda just lifted the parts to the bit with mi hands and did it by sight and "feel" I guess.
I've pretty much out this bike together using "The Force" if you will, but that only gets you so far. I'm an artist and also CS/MSIT guy so I'm kind "split down the middle" mentally on this stuff. I tend to make detailed, fool-proof plans which I later tend to ignore and go w/ instinct. Hope that helps and sorry if it doesn't.
This is the kinda stuff I do for fun when not building this bike:
