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Deuling's 1985 K5. "Restart thread on post #8415"

Killin it today.















I thought this was pretty cool for eyeballing these bars when i tacked them in :D





 
Looks great man! If I was home I'd be motivated to start some work on mine!! :pimp:

Why the fancy seat bridge halo? Seems like a lot of work bending, sleeving and welding when you could have just built the standard /--------\ style.
 
Looks great man! If I was home I'd be motivated to start some work on mine!! :pimp:

Why the fancy seat bridge halo? Seems like a lot of work bending, sleeving and welding when you could have just built the standard /--------\ style.


Probably to be different. Adam wants to show off so he can build other people's cages.
 
Actually it was laziness lol. This allowed me to get the height how I wanted then make the angle bars.

Instead of trying to make one piece cross bars with copes right in the perfect spot on the bends without screwing them up and getting length or height wrong.
And makes the outer seat brackets not be on a down bend and need to make some goofy bracket.


Plus it looks way sexier than a miter joint or something had I done it that way.
 
Now you just need to get a tube roller like all the cool kids have.
 
I thought it was the same thing Jess said but regardless, it looks great!


To a point yes. My initial thoughts were do a miter joint. But then I knew that would look super ghey and not flow. So I whipped this up. Still basically a miter joint, but flows much better with the rest.

And yes that table kills it. :D
 
Probably to be different. Adam wants to show off so he can build other people's cages.

Haha!

Actually it was laziness lol. This allowed me to get the height how I wanted then make the angle bars.

Instead of trying to make one piece cross bars with copes right in the perfect spot on the bends without screwing them up and getting length or height wrong.
And makes the outer seat brackets not be on a down bend and need to make some goofy bracket.


Plus it looks way sexier than a miter joint or something had I done it that way.

It does look cool! Just wondering. I do like the grab handle concept like Wade said too. I hold the bottom edge of my seat crawling off camber often. Maybe I will copy your design on my seat bridge. I paid for those 180 dies..I guess I could find a reason to use them :waytogo:
 
That's all turning out super nice!

If you could get guys to pay for the work I think you could have a great side business! :waytogo: Of course I guess you would have to rent the shop and tools so maybe not. But anyways Great job Adam! :thumb:
 
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