Front and Rear bumper build

[Dieselfuture]

That bumper is sweet! I have a cnc plasma available to me and I'm not sure I could make it that nice- well done df.

We'll thank you but it only looks that nice in pictures, up close I barely had time to grind some edges flat, but I like the rugged look. Really with straight edge you can make pretty straight cuts with torch. The only negative thing about it is things can warp, that's where plasma would be sweet. Actually when I notched my rear bumper for license plate it bowed in middle where ends of bumper slightly came up, If I put my long level end to end there will be gap of 1/2" or so in middle. But after looking at it I noticed that when tailgate open it perfectly matches that curve, so I left it alone.

[AGPTurbo]

Sounds like a blessing in disguise! I've played around with some fine detail stuff but nothing big.  I did make this hitch cover from 1/8" plate and 16Ga 2x2 box section.

[Dieselfuture]

Sounds like a blessing in disguise! I've played around with some fine detail stuff but nothing big. I did make this hitch cover from 1/8" plate and 16Ga 2x2 box section.

That looks really nice, did you do it with plasma table?

[AGPTurbo]

Yes. 4x4 torchmate. Cuts pretty good after a year of trial and error.

[Blueox01]

Want to mail me those cardboard patterns? I'll pay for the fed ex envelope.

Edited September 14, 2018 by Blueox01

[Dieselfuture]

1 hour ago, Blueox01 said:

Want to mail me those cardboard patterns? I'll pay for the fed ex envelope.

No  lol. They are not perfect by any means and I only kept the main brackets ones. You can easily make some out of cardboard pretty fast just start cutting, you may change things as you go anyway, my final brackets were slightly different anyway. That pattern is kind of for an idea more less. 

You have way more skills then I do and a nice shop looks like, these things I keep for a weird reasons and don't really want to get rid off. Sorry 

[Blueox01]

 That bumper is to me, a work of art! I suck at making patterns.

[Dieselfuture]

11 hours ago, Blueox01 said:

 That bumper is to me, a work of art! I suck at making patterns.

It's really not that hard just time consuming. All you got to do is start doing it.

[Bobalos]

On 9/15/2018 at 6:19 AM, Dieselfuture said:

It's really not that hard just time consuming. All you got to do is start doing it.

 

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