{"id":3896,"date":"2011-01-24T15:41:08","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T20:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/?p=3896"},"modified":"2012-09-02T15:17:10","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T20:17:10","slug":"sunday-sissy-xs650-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/2011\/01\/sunday-sissy-xs650-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Sissy &#8211; XS650 progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent most of Sunday with a can of MAPP gas, some welding gloves and a cut off wheel and came up with this.<\/p>\n<div class=\"cott-article__copy-img\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/2011-01-24-14.51.59_edit0.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3897\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/2011-01-24-14.51.59_edit0.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Obviously the welds need to be cleaned up, plus the clamps need some washers. I learned a lot about bending steel and what you can and cant get away with. It&#8217;s also not complete &#8211; I have a 1918 WWI bolo knife that is going to be mounted in the middle. I am about 90% satisfied with this though, there are a couple things that I wish I could go back and do right. Oh well, I&#8217;ll spend a day this summer with 20 dollars of steel and make it all right.<\/p>\n<div class=\"cott-article__copy-img\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/2011-01-24-14.51.41_edit0.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3899\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/2011-01-24-14.51.41_edit0.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Next up: rear fender bottom mounts, then the focus shifts to the front &#8211; lacing an old bmw drum front to a 21&#8243; rim and shortening the forks 3&#8243;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent most of Sunday with a can of MAPP gas, some welding gloves and a cut off wheel and came up with this. Obviously the welds need to be cleaned up, plus the clamps need some washers. I learned a lot about bending steel and what you can and cant get away with. It&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[51],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3896"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3896"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8964,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3896\/revisions\/8964"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}