Bike is striped to frame, however I left the engine in as I am not rebuilding it at this time and the frame is in great shape, I can paint it with the engine in utilizing airbrush and touch up guns in tight spots. I have rebuilt all components and am just starting to sand blast parts for paint, sure wish it would warm up around hear so I could paint. One thing I did was rebuild my gauges, I contacted a person who posted that he could do the faces for ten bucks however I wanted my own log and a ace of spades on the gauge so he felt it would get pretty expensive. I don't have any good software but I used MS Paint. I took the gauges apart by prying the crome bezel up and sliding it off. this took awhile, there is a web article on this just do a search on cb 450 gauges. I took the needles off by first moving them to the 12 oclock position and the placing two small spoons under them and resting the spoons on the face plate attachment screws and prying up, it will pop off so be carefull. I scaned my gauges in MS Paint zoomed up to 800 percent and change the color of every pixel, took a while, created my logo and ace of spades simble, got the size correct by using
http://www.picresize.com/. I used the custom setting and reduced by 64 percent. I took the saved JPG file to my local printer Heritage printing co. and they printed it out on a plastic film that comes with adheasive on the back. The gauge faces are a green plastic, with white paint on the front, when you wet sand the old decal off you will need to spray the white back, Just a light coat of krylon will work. I plan on making my own faces next winter out of clear lexon so thy will be more translusent and flat as mine were warped over the years, a heat gun flatten them out some but not all the way. I will not be putting the chrome band back on as I found that wraping them with electrical tape streched tight as you wrap it works great. I wraped mine five times around and sealed the seam at the bottom of the gauge with silicone adhesive and they are not coming apart and are more tightly sealed than with the chrome bezel, I can also get back into them if I need to with little trouble. I will keep posting as I go, Thanks to all who have helped me along the way so far.