Friday Night Sold to Terry, Owner of Artistic Ink in Pendleton SC

I fixed the Crossover and re-named it Friday Night cause of the Beam and Coke coils. The rear coil is a ten wrap and the front is a ten and a half wrap so the wire would come out of the top of the coil. Then I coiled the wires up for a different look and made my own brass binding posts. I also put the 47 capacitor on its own soldier lugs for an easy swap to liner.

My Reverse Spring Machines

Here they are! You will notice the Street Fighter (top right) is a little different than the pics below. I made a few changes to it. The top two are liners and the middle one is a shader.

The Beast

This one is an awesome reverse spring shader. It has a 47 cap and ten wrap clear coated coils. I made everything on this machine axcept for the a-bar, springs (I'll probably cut some), cores, nuts/bolts (I modified them), and some of the screws. I also put the 47 capacitor on its own soldier lugs so this can easily be switched to a liner.

The Crossover II

I re-did the Crossover. It's not done yet. It still has some electrical issues...maybe a weak solder joint or something...I'll figure it out. I carved the top of the frame in a spiral patern to kind of give it that old low rider bicycle feel, made the coil washers, wound the coils, switched to a 47 cap, just all out re-did everything. Great looking but not ready for the needles just yet.

Jimmy

Ok. It took a while for Jimmy to get to where I needed him to go but we made it. Knuckles (who was also known as Eleanor for a while because it was getting the better of me) got a total overhaul. I stripped it down to nuts and bolts, re-wires the coils with fresh wire and wrapped them with a Jim Beam label, hand hammered the whole frame and aged it, added my own hand made copper contact screw, and much more. This is my every day liner. I love how it runs.

Knuckles

This one was my fourth build. This was a regular brass frame with a spring on the front like normal and I cut it up and modified it. It was the one I traded the Hulk for. At this stage I was on my second capacitor for this machine. I started with a 47 cap and it ran like junk so I switched it to a 22 and it still sucked. It was the second reverse spring machine I built and I renamed this thing many times because it was a super difficult machine to deal with. I added a generic pic of the original machine. I guess it was a cheap piece from Cam. When I got it the rear coil had a 1/8 inch gap between the a-bar and core, the rear spring was broken, the front spring looked like I hit it with my mig welder...etc...it was a piece.

Street Fighter

This was my third build. I saw a huge rediculous machine on ebay with a reverse spring and decided that I'd try my hand at it. I figured if you where going to make it this way it should be a light machine not some machine with a bunch of added weight...strip it down to the basics and make a chopper out of it right? This thing works great.

The Crossover

Here's my second build. I built the frame out of a piece of cold rolled round bar. This one also was only a frame build and I soldered the pennies onto the screws. Very minor stuff. I re-built this one later on.

The Hulk

This is the first machine I tinkered with other than capasitor exchanges and spring tension adjustment. Me and my Father-in-Law built the frame out of a solid piece of billet aluminum on one of his CNC machines. The frame is great. I did a few things that I'm not so fond of on it but all in all I'm happy with the end result (minus the tube vise! I hate the quarter!). I don't have it anymore though. I traded it for a brass machine (and a little cash) that I ended up choppin' up and turning into one of my favorite and most used liners ("Jimmy"). Pretty much all of the pieces of this came off of some other machine and I didn't really do much as far as custom components because after all, this was my first one.