New Custom Belt Buckles From Rusty Knuckles

Shovelhead belt buckle design from Rusty Knuckles

Creating new items is just something we wake up pondering over. It could be a new tshirt design, album cover, a belt buckle or maybe a new style of motorcycle bag. Whatever it may be, we labor for hours thinking everything through and thinking on what might be a great new product. 

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Shaping An Aluminum Front Fairing For A Buell Race Bike

Shaping An Aluminum Front Fairing For A Buell Race Bike

Our english wheel is being put through its paces. After completing the wire frame to help shape out the style of the fairing, now it's time to get the aluminum rolled into the right shapes. Glad to have Mopar Rob over and helping out on the front fairing from time to time, on the Buell race bike.

Building A Gravity Race Cart From Scrap Parts - Time Lapse

Building A Gravity Race Cart From Scrap Parts - Time Lapse

A challenge is something we personally enjoy, so we decided to build a gravity racing cart from two scrap bicycles and one old go cart. It all started when a co-worked at an old job asked all of us to be part of a community event and we had to build a gravity racing cart to be a part of it. Needless to say, my mind started to run rampant with ideas and also how to do it on little or no budget.

As I researched about what the hell gravity racing actually was, I really started to immerse myself into the ideas and focus on a plan of attack. We needed it to be relatively easy to build and also low to the ground using bicycle tires and rims as they would give us our speed and be readily available.

Finding a decent used go cart frame wasn't too hard either with the help of craigslist so then it was time for the fabrication to start. After buying some steel for the axle fabrication and employing my scrap parts pile, along with the salvaged bikes, things progressed quickly and this here race cart is ready for action. The amazing aspect is that it one every single battle on race day and I can be fully satisfied in knowing that another scrap parts puzzle is completed. Long live DIY folks everywhere!

Watch our time lapse video below

Mopar Rob thinking on front end mock up

Getting the steering knuckles in place

Basic shape of the cart is in place for rear axle setup

Hard to believe that the old bike parts worked so well

Salvaged and scrap parts Cart ready for paint

The final look of the gravity racing cart

Old BMX bike about to go under the knife for surgery and amputation

Building A Custom Gravity Racer For Charity From An Old Go Kart And Two BMX Bikes

Taking a stock go kart frame and mixing it with two bmx bikes for the perfect gravity racer

There is many a night when the list of projects outweighs the amount of time that we have in any given day. A solid time management plan is consistently put into place and checked, re-checked and fiddled with more times than we know what to do with ourselves. Sometimes a few projects have to be deferred as others pop up with crazy deadlines.

Jay Leno's Garage And The Deccopods Built By Randy Grubb

Randy Grubb on of his aluminum creations

Randy Grubb is truly an eccentric individual and one hell of an automotive artist as he enjoys being dubbed, with distinction. The way he sculpts aluminum into rolling works of art is truly an art form and thusly creates vehicles that are made for Pixar without them even having to hire him. Dive into more of his work and check out some of his process videos on youtube.

Randy Grubb - Automotive Artist

The superbly built - Decoliner, by Randy Grubb

Rendering of Randy Grubb's Decoliner

Rusty Knuckles Custom Tool Bags and Belt Loops

For the last few months we have been schooling ourselves in leather work to crank out a plethora of new items for us and the bands. Needless to say we are damn proud of the new products coming out and getting a massive response. We will be debuting these products next weekend at Heavy Rebel Weekender. This fall stay tuned for another huge part of the leather goods to be arriving with a variety of saddle bags, belts, wallets and more band items focused on leather and metal etaching.

In the coming weeks we will be posting up videos of us creating these new items and also going into specifics about the types of leather being used. We are stoked to be able to offer cool items up for sale and to be able to back it up saying its all created in house by yours truly.

Rusty Knuckles 12 ga. Belt Loops in Black and Chestnut Brown

Rusty Knuckles new leather products in Black and Chestnut Brown

Chestnut Brown leather tool bag from Rusty Knuckles

Belt Loops and Keychains from Rusty Knuckles

Belt Loops and Keychains from Rusty Knuckles

Our new tool bags offered in Black and Chestnut Brown

Our new tool bags in Black vegetable tanned shoulder leather

Railroad Spike, Custom Knives

Over the last few years I have really been interested in learning more on the science and craftsmanship behind forged steel and blacksmithing. Our logo of the wrench knife was created by a local blacksmith as a gift and that set the ball in motion to learn more about this ancient craft. One area that I have been particularly paying attention to is custom swords and knives as the amount of craftsmanship to create such a type of blade can be done in many stages, such as with a Japanese sword or a bit quicker of a process with railroad spike knives.

Below is a cool video on how one guy is creating knives in a back yard forge and getting quite the results. If you want to know more about the science of metalurgy and sword making, check out a post we did a while back.

Link to article on sword making from an earlier post:

Custom knife made from railroad spike with leather sheath

Railroad spike knife with twisted handles

Railroad spike knife custom made

Railroad spike knife forged with black oxide and wood handle