Thanks for all the compliments here folks!

And Keith, yep, when you stated.."But that one of yours looks like it belongs there."..that's exactly the look I was goin' for. I wanted it to look like maybe it might've came from the factory that way, and so what I did was take a black grease pencil and drew a couple of different lines on my stock fender to see which one I liked the best, and then just measured that line and duplicated it on the fender I purchased from Friar John.

And regarding the color(BTW...good show ol' boy about leavin' that superfluous u outta there...I'm VERY impressed! ), my painter who does great work for pretty cheap, actually admited he slightly goofed, as the fender turned out juuuuuust a slightly darker shade of Cardinal Red than the rest of the bike. But unless you've got a great eye for that kind'a stuff, I suppose it's pretty hard to tell.


Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)