Another flask...

  Goin to Mike at TWT Customs in New York. He liked the one I did for R4YL, so he had me do another for him...

Wiseguy Choppers build w/ P.B.B. solo seat...

   I was commisioned to do this one for Wiseguy Choppers outta Washington state. Here's a shot of it on the bike, a V-star 1100 build for one of his customers.

Finished and ready to ship...

Started a solo seat for a cool customer this week...

    Works comin pretty steady, thanks all!

New Daytripper wallet...

  Just enough room for ID, credit card and a couple of bills...

Got the web site up and running...

www.Po-Boy Bikeworks.com

Sneak peak at a piece just finished...

Flask cover for R4YL...

Now available...

Congrats to Chris (Car99r) on makin the Horse...

   Check out the new issue of The Horse, to see Chris's garage built, ultra cool, 70's inspired, Honda powered trike. Chris is the forum admin over at http://www.thechopperunderground.com/forum/index.php . Besides heading up what is hands down, the absolute best garage built chopper forum on the world wide web, Chris has built a few cool rides himself, including this one. Congrats buddy...

Seat and toolbag on my bike...

Finally drug out the Suzi and mounted them up. Now if it were only wired, had breaks, and top-end gaskets done... It's a project chop, right?

Finished the toolbag for my chop,

Finally tackled the Mexican round braid lacing technique...

A lil' progress on my bag,

Been draggin arse on this one, gonna try and knock it out this week...

Flap is tooled...

Now to finish coloring and assembly...

Started tooling the front flap on the toolbag...

Both sides..

Started puttin a lil' color to the tool bag pieces...

Started working on a toolbag for my scoot today...

  You guessed it, more skulls.

Coloring finished...

Pics don't really do it justice.
   Thanks again to Steve @ Outcast Customs...

Tandy Customer Gallery,

   Several of my leather pieces were posted on the Tandy Blog site, pretty cool, I forgot I even submitted them...http://tandyleather.wordpress.com/galleries/customers-gallery-2/2011-gallery/

Thanks to Steve @ Outcast Custom!

  Make no mistake, the assembly on this one was not of my doing! I sent a crappy looneynum pan to Steve several months ago to have him do a tooled leather covering for it w/ a simple P.B.B logo and told him to take his time, get to it when he could. Over those same months, I decided to take up leather tooling and Steve has become a "long distance mentor", helping me w/ advice, tips, and encouragement along the way. Put aside the vast wealth of knowledge he has shared in my endeavor, Steve has become a true friend. We have shared some stories from life, bitched about problems and health, but in the end, he always snaps me back to the reality that it ain't ever as bad as it seems, overall, I got a lot to be thankful for! You can't put a price on that.
   At some point along the way, he convinced me I was good enough to tool the top for the seat he was working on for my chopper. I wasn't really sure if my tooling was worthy of his seat craftsmanship, but, I agreed. The seat you see here represents alot more than just a business transaction, more than just paying someone to cover a seat, it represents a friendship, stumbled upon in one of lifes rare moments, purely by chance.
         Thanks Steve, yur a class act...
              PB

Gave the "Garage Girl" seat top a lil' color...

Started on a new seat,

  Tryin to expand the subject matter beyond the skull realm...

Put a lil' color to the latest piece,

Always second guess myself when coloring. It's tough to cover up the look of natural tooled leather...

Just finished tooling...

Kick start Evo Sporty???

  Another cool bike from the guys at Led-Sled Customs...

This one should leave the Sporty "afficianados" scratching their heads...
http://www.ledsledcustoms.com/index.asp

Started a lil' "garage art" piece,

Ole' Gearhead...

Sneak peak at where this one's headed...

Trump Chop,

Not mine (obviously), but this thing just oozes "COOL"...

Started on an insert for a new solo seat.

   Tired of all the rain, so decided to get out the leather tools again...

3rd Place, TCU 2011 BBO,

Nice job Dusty, very classy scoot... Deatails of the build @ the link below.

http://www.thechopperunderground.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=51757

2nd place in the TCU 2011 BBO,

Congrats to Kt88 on the great build. He gets the sissy bar bag I made awhile back (see in earlier blog post) as a prize. Check out the build in the link below...

http://www.thechopperunderground.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=52066

TCU 2011 BBO Winner,

Congrats Jeff, great build... Click on the link for all the details on this cool lil' scoot...

http://www.thechopperunderground.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=52266

Finished...

 Ready to ship...

Started another biker wallet...

Get to buildin...

   Spring is just around the corner and I can't wait! I've spent most of the winter gettin started into this leather toolin gig and it has definitely helped me to keep my sanity. Winter is a depressing, yet inevitable, fact of life here in Ohio, so an indoor hobby was good for the soul I guess. Like most gearheads, I can't wait for that first warm, dry day to get outside, roll the bike out and continue choppin again. I will finish the Zuki this year if it kills me. So, just between us chop buildin freaks, get out there and chop, grind, weld or paint somethin, it's like therapy I tell ya. I can have a terrible 10 hour day at work, come home, and fab a part, or rattle can a piece I made and all is right w/ the world. Amazing stuff really, powerful and soothing. So, quit worryin about the bills, yellin at the kids or stressing over that probem at work and go build something!

                                      PB

Another checkbook for a friend...

This one is for a special purpose...

First "special order" piece...

  Started on my 1st biker wallet, ordered by a buddy in Omaha.

   Thanks again to my buddy Steve (Groovesdown) @ Outcast Customs, for all the pointers and encouragement along the way...

2nd seat just about tooled...

This one is goin on my chop!

Finished tooling the solo seat...

Started on my first solo seat...

With what else? The PBB logo...