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Well deserved honor, Mike. Congrats!

Thanks guys, it was a few hours spread over a couple of days

In looking through some pictures it seems I missed showing a project we did last year. A customer brought in a "Patent Idea Display". This had a battery pack inside that powered the headlights (headlight bezels not shown) and featured a rod down the bottom that would oscillate the left...

For a one piece solution, starting with a formed ring (so you know the size is correct) you’ll need to stretch to get the flange to lay over. A tipping die on a bead roller will start the process of the bend but won’t provide stretch. Would be quite a bit of hammering for a manual operation...

I've found it cheaper to work on other people's cars. :ROFLMAO: No, customer car. That's the hazards of having a day job that sends me on too much travel.

Randy, a buddy of mine owned the yellow truck. He’s also got my old Unibody.

The hinge covers for the wagon is one of the many loose ends we have left to address, quite a bit of rust... A quick test fit before we go off fabricating anything shows these factory original parts are no better than many of the reproduction parts you get today.. I had planned on...

It was gone, someone had cut it off for who knows what.

We've all seen the rusted out floor pans in old cars with a sign screwed or pop riveted in place to keep your feet from falling through. As a first for me, now I've repaired one of those signs. We needed to make some dies for the Lennox to produce the "picture frame" border...

Happy Birthday Randy!!

The wife and I travelled down to SC last week, and I stopped and visited John Glenn at Anderson Auto Glass to see the pickup he is restoring. I was early, so went back to the Antique store I had passed and picked up this adjustable vixen file. Glad to get it off the shelf and back into use...

Happy New Year Randy!!

Thanks to all for following along with our adventures, whether commenting, asking questions, offering suggestion, or just reading the updates. May everyone have a healthy and blessed New Year!!

Mike, hope you and your family had a Merry Christmas! Well done on the pen, I’m certain it will be treasured for years to come.

Thanks guys! Hope everyone enjoyed a good Christmas surrounded by family/friends. Some fabrications from last week, now that the cat can be let out of the bag. My daughter has my saddle bags from my Harley I owned 25 plus years ago to install on her Yamaha. So, while she was at work last...

I had some fabrications to do for the day job that require a bit more precision than I'd seen out of my Pexto shear. I don't have a back gauge so typically we'd position the panel in the center so we could measure along both sides. Positioning against the squaring guide would block this...

Pat, congrats on the retirement!

Thanks for the comments guys, working on “tiny trailers” isn’t something we normally do but really enjoyed the challenge… We were trying to keep anchors to a minimum to help eliminate any trip hazard, which is why the ones in the back were tucked in the corner. We looked at a few different...

Flooring and cove base installed. The 3-1/2" pipe (1/2" wall) covered in purple tape is our roller to smooth things out.. Tool box attached to the wall with 5/16 rivnuts into the studs and standoffs to keep the lid from dragging the wall. table re-installed Chair securing...

Thought it would provide a more "stable" platform for a work surface. The leaf was made big enough to pass around the table to get to the rear of the trailer, nothing more.. JR was the biggest guy on the crew so we made the opening one JR wide.