With the newer FBs having bullet holes in the solid wheels, can anyone see reasons why older solid wheels could not be drilled, or machined with designs to make them unique?&nbsp\\; Of course, wheel balance would have to be a factor in the design, but structurally, would there be a down side?

 

there was a post on here about a month or so ago, of a company that would take your "old" FatBoy wheels and machine them out... some of their examples were kinda like something OCC would do.
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I don't remember the company - but, I'm sure you could do a search.

 

HEre is an ebay ad for people who do this.&nbsp\\;
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Custom-machined-Fatboy-Wheel-Harley-chopper-touring_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ35578QQihZ010QQ itemZ200234800726QQrdZ1QQsspagenameZWDVW

 

Thanks much... this is great info.

 

That's some nice work.&nbsp\\; Real custom, not a copy cat.

 

I have a 1963 split window corvette coupe
(in my dreams) and was thinking
about cutting out the the rear window bar
Do you think It would hurt the cars value.
Buy the wheels you want save the chance of a screw up
Stephen95

 

I'm new to riding big bikes so take this FWEIW.
I have an 08 FB and just got the reaper wheels installed. My point is I have riden with the bullet holes. Not much, but after the switch I'd say a lot more wind moves through the wheels.If you are tired of getting shoved by a crosswind .&nbsp\\;On a butt crack opion skip the drilling and spend the money on the wheels you really want.
That my .02

 

I saw another ebay page that has&nbsp\\;4 styles

 

Got a behind the scenes tour of the American IronHorse facility about 1 1/2 years ago. Their 'wheel blanks' started out as what I would call Fatboy wheels, the the CNC machine (I think that is the correct terminology) would cut out the excess material to get to the final wheel shape. Much like you would see on OCC. Pretty amazing to see the process up close.

Also, a friend of mine who works at the local HD dealership has a Fatboy and also plays guitar in a local band. He has told me before that he has a guy/place that he intends to ship his wheels to at some point to have profiles of guitars cut out of his wheels. Sounds pretty cool to me!

 

typically, with the fat boy wheels, designs are cut out with a water jet machine.&nbsp\\; the wheel face is not flat, so machining it with a CNC machine is pretty tough, unless you have the exact profile of the wheel face.&nbsp\\; the only draw back of a water jet cut is that you can only do a 2D cut.&nbsp\\; The CNC machines, with the right programmer, can cut intricate 3D designs.&nbsp\\; All our wheels start out as forged billet "blanks" and then we mill the designs into that blank.