Customer Reviews

Jesse James and His Beautiful Machines

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Loved the bikes but I wish it was in colour!

I understand it's ART & they are worthy of a museum. But to me the black & white sucks. If I wasn't such an enthusiest, I'd have my new door stop.

Great book. I bought it for my husband who builds choppers as a hobby. He loved the book...but thought it could be even better if it had more pictures of bikes and less of people.

This book with the black & white photos and Jesse and his crew could not be better. The photos are so clear you can learn from this. I highly recommend this to anyone into motorcycles or welding/fabricating.

This is a large book with page after page of stunning black & white photography. As much as I love great shots of cool bikes and thier builders, I was a bit dissapointed with this book. This is proabably my own mistake for not reading the book summary close enough. I was expecting something more like 'Jesse James, the Man and His Machines'; a book with tons of great photos but also some writing on the man, his builds, and his process. I thought a new book would have more updated writing from everything that has changed in the last few years since that other book was published. Not so... little verbage other than introduction, photo index in the back, and 4 page blurb by Steve Appleford. Those 4 pages offer some interesting insights, but dosen't quite save the book.

So if you're looking for something to 'read' abot Jesse James, try the afore-mentioned book. This photo book will end up with beer bottle rings on the cover as it sits on my coffee table.

Oh, by the way, for one last kick in the pants; "Printed and Bound in CHINA" is slapped on the back cover. Go figure.

I thought the book would be about the bikes and cars from west coast choppers. It turned out to be a large book with black and white shots of the shop, its workers, bikes and Jesse. Pretty cool, but not what I thought it would be. I'm pretty happy with the book being a big WCC fan, it's a good addition to the coffee table.