Well, weatherman said that we should expect rain this weekend. Guess what? He was wrong! Surprise.
Spent my morning volunteering time to help teach others and then got home.
Was planning to go mountain biking but that didn't happen. So with some unoccupied time I started thinking about the "GiN". From there I checked youtube for paint ideas. This is what I found http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MsVWj3fGkY. I plan on using the info, but also recognized that I had to get off my rear and get to work.
Hopefully this will turn the tank and tail-piece into something that looks pretty nice.
Started work on the tail-piece. Took a good amount of time just to cut it our from my stock aluminum. I had started cutting into it with the poor mans method, which is pictured. Time to completion 1 hour! Did take a few breaks to rest my arm/hand.
From there I worked on using a template for the shape I believe would work.
Using poster art plexi, I painstakingly made a graph of 1" squares to try to get it
close to symmetrical.
Did help me too see where I was off on my template... and my graph!
After marking and re-marking the lines I'd hoped would be symmetrical, went to work with the tin-snips to get the final shape.
This also was challenging as I knew that if I made any mistakes I'd want them to work to my favor. Using a grinder I worked to knock off the sharp edges. Not wanting to grind too much the decision was made to hold off on anymore grinding till after it's been shaped. Sound kinda backward? This guy wouldn't disagree. The train of thought I'm hoping to employ is that when it's shaped, the edges could be ground to sit level. Right? Below is the last point I got till I was too hot and tired to move on.
Aluminum was chosen for its resistance to rust, being lightweight and what I thought would be the easy task of shaping... NOT!
Hope you enjoy the posts. Sorry bout the layout. will continue to work on figuring the correct placement of text so that it doesn't get placed funny and hard to follow if you choose to read this.
Started work on the tail-piece. Took a good amount of time just to cut it our from my stock aluminum. I had started cutting into it with the poor mans method, which is pictured. Time to completion 1 hour! Did take a few breaks to rest my arm/hand. 
From there I worked on using a template for the shape I believe would work.
Using poster art plexi, I painstakingly made a graph of 1" squares to try to get it close to symmetrical.
Did help me too see where I was off on my template... and my graph!
After marking and re-marking the lines I'd hoped would be symmetrical, went to work with the tin-snips to get the final shape.
This also was challenging as I knew that if I made any mistakes I'd want them to work to my favor. Using a grinder I worked to knock off the sharp edges. Not wanting to grind too much the decision was made to hold off on anymore grinding till after it's been shaped. Sound kinda backward? This guy wouldn't disagree. The train of thought I'm hoping to employ is that when it's shaped, the edges could be ground to sit level. Right? Below is the last point I got till I was too hot and tired to move on.
Aluminum was chosen for its resistance to rust, being lightweight and what I thought would be the easy task of shaping... NOT!
Hope you enjoy the posts. Sorry bout the layout. will continue to work on figuring the correct placement of text so that it doesn't get placed funny and hard to follow if you choose to read this.
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