So, I've been wanting to chop the rear fender on my 02 883R, but had no desire to mess with the original one that's on there.
I started pricing fenders....wow, more than this cat wants to spend on something I'm gonna strip and chop!!!!
So, while perusing the wonders of ebay, I came across this one for 10 bucks....but it had quite the dent in it..


I've got a good hand with forming sheet metal, so I said "What the hell, why not?" and bought it...20 bucks for shipping, but I'm still ahead of the game....
It arrived yesterday, and after 3 minutes on the face of an anvil, it looked like this..


So, I did a rough chop to it after doing some more minor dent mashing...


And this is where I'm at now...it's been mostly sandblasted to get the paint off, and still needs some fine planishing, but it's coming along pretty good so far.

I'll post some more pics as it progresses....

 

Right on man. I buy LOTS of stuff from Pinwall. They have a huge place in Ohio.

 

It must be nice to be handy. Best way to save money. Post pics when finished.

 

I'm in Ohio. Where exactly is this Pinwall?

 

place like that in jersey, guy has chicken coop after chicken coop of harley parts dating back to the early 1900's. nice find.

 

Massillon Ohio. Where in Ohio are you? My wife & I ride to Celina for lunch quite a bit. There's a drive through liquor store that makes some bad *** pizza and a joint right down from there called Big *** Burgers that's right on Grand Lake.

Same here man but it's rows of semi trailers flat on the ground with no axles. Called Rotten Choppers. Tons of Pans, Knuckles & Shovels. Even some flat heads but NO Sportster stuff! The guy hates Sportsters! Lol.

 

Nice find, sometimes junk parts are the best parts.

 

I have never been to Pinwall and it's only about 45 mins away-they never seem to have anything i'm looking for.

 

So, I've got it to where I can't really do much to it anymore until I get my spring solo seat pan and get the mounting figured out, and get my new tail light and signals. Once I get all that worked out, then I can put the fender on, mark where I have to cut the struts, and then do the final cut on the fender.
Here it is with a smidge of bondo on it to blend out some ripples and hammer marks.

(Note to self, do NOT leave your polished finishing hammers out where other people can use them, because to them, a hammer is just a hammer....sigh...)

I threw some flat white on it to keep it from rusting until I get all my other stuff done....

 

^^^good job. not to jack your thread but sinse i mentioned it....

just in case anyone is in the williamstown, nj area and doesn't know about this place, check it out. it's freakin insane, oh and the guy has a museum of old restored bikes that's outta this world.
http://www.nickscustomcycles.com/