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Ryoken's 89 Crew Cab Tubebed build... aka Mutt....

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I know the pics not the clearest, was just trying size/layout the lettering, but... I'm thinking the silver in the names could be either a "turned alum" look or maybe even a silver leaf look, like my boat painter guy could hand apply/brush... ala boat transom names.... think it would give it that old 60's hotrod/tow truck feel...

not sure what the minimum legal info requirements are for a LLC.... if that's ok, or if I HAVE to have a phone #, or a town & state... rather not have a phone #... plus it would prolly shrink in that lettering.. making the mallard smaller....

I'm thinking a wide "rounded diamond shaped", area with the ripped sheetmetal edging in the center.... maybe creeping under the lettering a bit.. with the mallard busting thru...
 
I think I can get a small engine turn silver, I know I can in gold. And that's real 24kt gold. I will check on silver.

In Colorado you would typically have to run a DOT number. The LLC labeling is more of a liability thing. You are supposed to include it so as to disclose that you are a LLC and not just a person. At least that's what I'm told around here. I try to keep the LLC lettering small. I don't like it being a prominent part.
 
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that looks like an engine turn.... I wanna see what leaf would look like... they must make that like the gold leaf... stick it in the wet stuff, "dry brush it in" type look...


here's obviously what a gold version looks like...



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I think that would look perfect in silver, if there is such a process... have to look it up tonight...... the engine turn would look nearly as well too...
 
ryoken said:
not sure what the minimum legal info requirements are for a LLC.... if that's ok, or if I HAVE to have a phone #, or a town & state... rather not have a phone #
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I am not 100% sure, but if I remember correctly about 10 years ago I think the lettering needed to be 3". As far as numbers, you are supposed to have a town where the business is located and a number. OR..... register with the DOT then you do not need anything except a DOT number and your business name. You see many trucking/hauling companies do this. Now you can have your logo happy on the front door and on the lower rear door DOT:12345678 Keeps it much cleaner and much more private as you are hauling.
 
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I am not 100% sure, but if I remember correctly about 10 years ago I think the lettering needed to be 3". As far as numbers, you are supposed to have a town where the business is located and a number. OR..... register with the DOT then you do not need anything except a DOT number and your business name. You see many trucking/hauling companies do this. Now you can have your logo happy on the front door and on the lower rear door DOT:12345678 Keeps it much cleaner and much more private as you are hauling.
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awesome info, thanks... that's kinda what I was thinking was the case.... and that would be perfect.. DOT# at the bottom of the back doors....




on a semi-aside-Ryoken "winter work on the K5", receiving new puppy front...


being my winter is pretty shot with the puppy coming in early feb... I'm gonna try to get one of my carpal tunnel surgeries at the beginning of January hopefully... I heard it's about a 4 week recovery, so I should be pretty healed by Malakai's arrival..

that definitely puts a hurtin on any K5 work in jan.. but it's gotten sooooo bad in my right hand, I just can't see making it to next winter... not to mention it's progressing in the other hand too now.. but my right is just destroyed from 100's of shrinkwraps the last couple months.. next winter i'll do the left...

every yr, the fall is when it really acts up, but this yr is over the top.. awake all night, numb fingers, pain all day, the whole 9 yards... usually 6 to 8 weeks of hangin out after x-mas heals it up enough to survive till next fall... but it's so bad, I'm afraid of permanent damage at this point...

so it's rounds of docs over the next few weeks, my cardio guy who I haven't seen in a yr.. my regular to refer me to whoever does carpal tunnel, etc...
 
My father-in-law had the surgery a year or 2 ago. 4-6 weeks sounds about right. He had it done in TR or Brick. I'll let you know where. I should be seeing him this weekend.
 
Sent you a PM. father-in-law called my wife so I had her ask. Figured Id pass along his success story. Well partial success.....
 
chevyfumes said:
I'd rather have carpel tunnel, then what I got after being explained to what the surgery would entail, I declined:doah::hack:
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trust me brudda.. I have a list o' chit that extends over 25 yr's of surgeries that I need.. f#cked back, hernia stickin out of my gut, hemorrhoids, dental stuff, let alone the 2 knee replacements they've talked about...

the carpal tunnel has been progressing for about 15 yr's now.. it's hit #1 on the hit parade tho.. prior, it was my f*cked discs that I thought where the priority.. now that I'm apparently not dying of lung cancer, time to start plugging away at the list a bit I suppose.. I'm compensating so much for the one horrible hand, the left has gotten pretty badf in it's own right...

sadly, and stoooooooooooooooooo












ooooooooopidly,


I am by far the biggest masochist I've ever met.. pretty synonymous with being a hardcore vert skater... kinda goes hand and hand.... it makes getting battered and bloody as a marine mechanic.... doable, I suppose... should have gotten most of this looked at, fixed, decades ago...


:doah::screwy::haha:

Bigblue7-2 said:
His surgery was pretty easy. A small incision in the palm of his hand and they snipped thru the hole. super easy
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my co-worker said it went well for him.. it's one of those procedures that have gotten exponentially more successful over the yr's.. nowadays they got it down pretty good.. back in the day, it was much more 50/50 on the success rate...


it's bad.. it's been bad.... but as I alluded to, vert skatin has made....... me, ummmmmm, thrive? on how much I can put up with??????? :dunno: :doah: :haha:


9 official working days till lay off... which means prolly 12 for me before x-mas lay off with weekends..... 24 shrinks left..

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about 8 of them are HUGE bastards.... too much ladder work, and too much knot tieing for my hands...... oh well......


cardio apt on the 28th.. gotta work on getting in with the ortho dude to snip my palm......




on a positive note.. Mutt is just fuggin cool.... :woot: :pimp: :saweet: makes friends daily...... :thumb:

I flog the pee out of it daily.... :burnout: the 454 is anemic as he!!, but if I beat it, it's fun enough.... needs "more muffler" tho... the giant magnaflows are just too quiet... a wicked p-pump will be fun, but a big part of me just wants to throw a big pony roller gasser in it and light the Baja's up... :ignore:
 
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Do you have any pics or details on how those boats get wrapped up? I have always wondered how that process works.
 
JoshHefnerX said:
I always thought skaters were a little bit off. Gotta love pain for doing that.
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honestly........ most of society really has no clue... people skate a bit when they where 10, 12, whatever.. to commit yourself to slamming, eleventy hundred times to learn tricks thru your teens, adulthood, , is, well, stooopidly masochistic... honestly, I can't explain it, I've WRECKED a million times..

I spent more weekends than I can count, in the middle of the woods, MILEs from anywhere.. skating by myself, SLAMMIN repeatedly on a certain trick... till I landed it... pics later....



I'm gonna say, that is a self-satisfying kinda thing, that few in life can understand........ that means nothing, to anyone other than me.... understandably.. Paul (pblaze and a couple others will get it... but for a majority of the masses that may read my ramblings, it really is an alien kinda thang) :screwy: :haha:



westn11 said:
Do you have any pics or details on how those boats get wrapped up? I have always wondered how that process works.
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huh... I never really considered that.. ummm no.. as of currently? but I could conceivably do it this week.. me see..


ummm, dinkwrapping... I was one of the first in the state to do it, 25 or eleventy yr's ago... ummm, the stooooopid amounts of minutia that I know, could make a long video/book.. I'm actually kinda training my bosses kid right now.. we'll see.. I can explain ANY of it in detail.. you strap the boat with a special woven strapping material.. pull the plastic, wrap and weld your lower tabs... shrink main parts, yada.. i'll see about a bit more pic type lesson in a day or 2, maybe...

what I do has been described by passer-by's as works of art.. any monkey can shrinkwrap a boat, doing them the way I do, bit more involved.... I look at it as an apartment building wrapped in plastic!!!! :doah: :saweet: :woot: :haha: :pimp: :pimp1: :popcorn: :smokin2:
 
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ryoken said:
oh, and funny "fan" story.....

I'm often surprised at who compliments the rig... old ladies, kids, yada, homeless, etc.....

today took the cake.. came home for my 1/2 hr lunch.. they're paving my road.. so I park in the middle of the field across the street from my house.. eat sammich.. go to leave, and am accosted by a fully tatt'd, PURPLE Mohawked, paver dude, "DOOD, THAT THING IS SICK!!!!"

tanks bruDDa!! :haha:
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I've had to explain to the girlfriend the concept of "Blazer Time." The truck takes a little longer to get places, partially because it's a bit slower and doesn't corner so quick, but also because people will stop and chat. Whether it's housewives asking about the Smurf paint job, or gearheads asking about technical stuff ... well, you guys know, it happens to you too. It's just funny.

One day in the taqueria parking lot a guy in a suit comes up from his BMW and says "That your truck?" and I'm thinking he's gonna bitch me out about my parking job (it was within the lines, it's just a small lot.)

Nope, he wanted to know if those were the Bilstein 5100's and what I thought of them. 15 minutes of suspension discussion ensued :haha: As Ryoken points out, it takes all kinds :)

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