Making slow but steady progress on my current Rat Rod Bikes Build Off entry,
Shoestring. It shouldn't take much to get it rideable, mostly just cleaning and greasing bearings, and servicing the coaster brake. The most recent progress however has come from the custom headlight I'm going to build and install on this bike.
I've got a bent spoon that will hold the headlight like you'd hold a baseball using the palm of your hand. Unlike your hand and the baseball though, the headlight will be held in place using either rivets or screws.
I just found a light bulb I could use with the socket I already had in stock. I just had to rob it from one of my back-burner bikes.
Here are most of the parts I intend to use to make this headlight: a large aluminum fence post topper, a VW emblem, a 2x AAA battery tray, an e10 light bulb and socket, and a tiny switch I got from one of the last, if not
the last Radio Shack in the state of Oklahoma. I already had all these parts, which is good because I'm trying not to spend a ton of money on this bike.
The good news is that everything fits inside the fence post topper just fine. The not so great news is that I only have just enough room to fit everything inside the topper. That means I've got some cosmetic problems to figure out since I can't trim the topper so the VW emblem sits flush against the ridge on the topper.