With painters tape I marked the perimeter

Drawing the stripes wasn't a complete waste of time because I printed them out and used them as a guide for the Plan B stripes

'80 Tail Stripes

I traced the outline of the panels of the tail, scanned them and imported them into Corel
The stripes were drawn with the same widths and feel as the stock stripes
The plan was to have them cut from vinyl and clear over them but unfortunately I couldn't find vinyl to match the colour of the existing stripes
So...I had to revert to plan B; I have some gold vinyl stripes left over from my '78 and helmet so I'll try that

Working on the Tails

We had some great weather in April so I dragged the '78 tail and the '80 tail out and did some sanding and painting

My Brother Bought a 1980 Standard Goldwing

Back in March my brother bought himself a Goldwing which I have documented on the Naked Goldwing site. It was a harrowing trip (for him):

http://www.ngwclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=39418

Plug Framework

The first two generations tanks have a blocky, chamfered feel and that is the look I am after with this new tail

Production Tail

I have had some people requesting that I make them a Goldwing tail section similar to the ones I have made for my bikes. Now if I were to make a one off for someone it would be prohibitively expensive since I work slowly and it takes me about a million hours to make one of my tails. Some have even suggested that I take a mold off of one of my existing tails. The tails that I have made were not really designed to be copied since they don't draw in any direction and to make a copy, a multipart mold would be required

Sooo....I thought I would make a new tail with the intent of pulling a mold and copying it. This will require a shape that will draw to keep it to a one piece mold. I have decided to make the tail for a first or second gen Goldwing ('75-'79) and I want to make it compliment the two different tank styles

I have a '79 frame that I am using in the basement to start the tail plug since it is still too cold in the garage to work