Jesse McCauley
McCauley Cycle Works
I'd love to get some caber insight into an ongoing effort to complete these Kelly bars.
Once upon a time another caber harvested the Kelly nut & toothed washer from this set and it was left with a modern chrome nut & no washer to secure it.
This one piece bar style of Kellys is new to me but I appreciate the design so I wanted to try to get it right as I could.
I found a damaged solo Kelly bar section courtesy of Reed in NJ and had it shaved down to what I felt like was a safe thickness/profile. I also sought out an appropriately sized / threaded and aged nut, this is what I came up with.
All that to ask, what do you think?
Look acceptable? Suggestions to improve?
I'm going to do a little salt water aging to the fresh cut metal eventually but aside from that I don't know how else to improve the curb appeal of this monkeyed with set of Kellys.
I am considering an aged acorn nut, but that may look silly I don't know.
Thanks in advance for any constructive criticism, doin the best I can with it.
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Once upon a time another caber harvested the Kelly nut & toothed washer from this set and it was left with a modern chrome nut & no washer to secure it.
This one piece bar style of Kellys is new to me but I appreciate the design so I wanted to try to get it right as I could.
I found a damaged solo Kelly bar section courtesy of Reed in NJ and had it shaved down to what I felt like was a safe thickness/profile. I also sought out an appropriately sized / threaded and aged nut, this is what I came up with.
All that to ask, what do you think?
Look acceptable? Suggestions to improve?
I'm going to do a little salt water aging to the fresh cut metal eventually but aside from that I don't know how else to improve the curb appeal of this monkeyed with set of Kellys.
I am considering an aged acorn nut, but that may look silly I don't know.
Thanks in advance for any constructive criticism, doin the best I can with it.
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