This week on Oil & Whiskey, we’re joined by Kirk Brown, better known as Crafty B.Kirk is the guy behind some of the coolest handmade hot rod jewelry, gas caps, switch panels, bottle openers, shift knobs, and sand-cast parts in the game. If you’ve ever seen one of his pieces, you know the deal — it feels old, handmade, weird, imperfect in the right ways, and cooler because of it.The guys talk with Kirk about growing up building BMX bikes, minibikes, go-karts, and anything else he could cut apart and weld back together, his years in tool and die, building dies for parts like the Viper clutch pedal and PT Cruiser radio trim, and how that background eventually turned into Crafty B.Kirk gets into the process behind his work, why he still prefers carving patterns by hand, what he loves about sand casting, why making the pattern is the best part, and how one-off parts, gas caps, bomb antenna toppers, and handmade details became his thing.They also dig into the Beeline Special, the Scorpion dune buggy, the Doom Bug, the houseboat, the Quonset hut, Florida boating disasters, Cushman scooters, drag boats, weird project ideas, and the creative chaos that comes with a guy who always has to be making something.Add in custom gifts for the guys, a Sade-and-E-Type-Jag road trip, a Cushman scooter police bust, boat patrol drama, Rick Dore dream builds, a ninth-grade toolbox, Jesse James stories, and the usual *Oil & Whiskey* detours, and this one goes exactly where it should.
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