{"id":46,"date":"2015-11-30T21:50:16","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T21:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brummett.info\/biker\/?p=46"},"modified":"2016-05-17T19:51:12","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T19:51:12","slug":"funeral-urn-for-my-best-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/brummett.info\/biker\/funeral-urn-for-my-best-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Funeral urn for my best friend."},"content":{"rendered":"<body><p><\/p><figure id=\"attachment_47\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47\" style=\"width: 228px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brummett.info\/biker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/TazzHouse.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-47\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-47\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brummett.info\/biker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/TazzHouse.jpg?resize=228%2C300\" alt=\"?\" width=\"228\" height=\"300\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brummett.info\/biker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/TazzHouse.jpg?resize=228%2C300 228w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brummett.info\/biker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/TazzHouse.jpg?resize=768%2C1012 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brummett.info\/biker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/TazzHouse.jpg?resize=777%2C1024 777w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brummett.info\/biker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/TazzHouse.jpg?w=1600 1600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brummett.info\/biker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/TazzHouse.jpg?w=2400 2400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-47\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201c\u2026Grieve not,<br>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Nor speak of me with tears,<br>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0But laugh and talk of me<br>\u00a0 \u00a0as if I were beside you there.\u201d<br>~ Isla Paschal Richardson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It was my privilege to build this urn for my friend, Ken \u201cTazz\u201d Crofutt who went down on a bike he loved on May 30, 2015. Rest in peace, my brother.<\/p>\n<h3>Building the Urn:<\/h3>\n<p>The urn consists of a top end off of a 103ci Harley Davidson engine. The \u201cjug\u201d is inset into a hollowed out base machined from a solid 10\u2033x3\u2033 round billet of aluminum. The pictures below show the base being \u201cfaced\u201d on a lathe and then one of the chip piles from the milling process in a Haas machining center. This project was a labor of love; thanks to all the folks at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.datc.edu\" target=\"_blank\">DATC<\/a> who helped make this project possible.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-48\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brummett.info\/biker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/turnUrn.jpg?resize=147%2C135\" alt=\"turning on a lathe\" width=\"147\" height=\"135\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brummett.info\/biker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/turnUrn.jpg?resize=300%2C276 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brummett.info\/biker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/turnUrn.jpg?resize=768%2C706 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brummett.info\/biker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/turnUrn.jpg?resize=1024%2C942 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brummett.info\/biker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/turnUrn.jpg?w=1600 1600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brummett.info\/biker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/turnUrn.jpg?w=2400 2400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 147px) 100vw, 147px\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-49\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brummett.info\/biker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/chips.jpg?resize=189%2C247\" alt=\"pile of chips\" width=\"189\" height=\"247\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brummett.info\/biker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/chips.jpg?resize=229%2C300 229w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brummett.info\/biker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/chips.jpg?resize=768%2C1004 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brummett.info\/biker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/chips.jpg?resize=783%2C1024 783w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brummett.info\/biker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/chips.jpg?w=1600 1600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brummett.info\/biker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/chips.jpg?w=2400 2400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 189px) 100vw, 189px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was my privilege to build this urn for my friend, Ken \u201cTazz\u201d Crofutt who went down on a bike he loved on May 30, 2015. Rest in peace, my brother. Building the Urn: The urn consists of a top end off of a 103ci Harley Davidson engine. The \u201cjug\u201d is inset into a hollowed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,8,9],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biker-culture","tag-funeral-urn","tag-harley-urn","tag-ken-crofutt"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/brummett.info\/biker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/brummett.info\/biker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/brummett.info\/biker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brummett.info\/biker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brummett.info\/biker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/brummett.info\/biker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51,"href":"http:\/\/brummett.info\/biker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/brummett.info\/biker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brummett.info\/biker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brummett.info\/biker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}