Ancient Wooden Bikes

>1,2,3.

Straight Bar #2

Straight bar #2, with racing stripes, came out of the forms today.
After a quick planing with the sander and a trip on the saw, blank is roughly square.
Two minutes of routing later, we have a rough bar!







...and after some sanding:

Beauty

A straight bar (Maple) and U bar (Red Oak) finished with 3 coats teak oil.

Drop Bars

Workshop pictures:
A third design in the works!-- a drop-bar made by clamping veneer in three places and letting the natural arc and torsion keep everything together as it dries.
These are the first 4 pieces of 1/16". The final bar will have 17 sheets, making a curly "block" 1 and 1/16th square by 36 inches long.

Prototypes 1 & 2.

Prototypes of the 'U'-bar and straight-bar are now in production.
Photos soon!

Making Forms

Making the forms around which we can bend and clamp our 1/16th" veneer.
Simply 1 1/2 inch plywood doubled up.


Giving the new clamps a try.