Made a trophy for Groundhog Gala this weekend

I bought s****s of plastic from my favorite place in Orlando, Skycraft, cut 'em out with a jigsaw, glued the pieces together with a high quality acrylic cement that costs $19 a pint. Then I sanded em into shape with a belt sander and DA, and finally polished on my trusty old Baldor.

Someone will win this on Saturday at our show.

 

Looks good Nads, wish I could make it, trying to get the '47 togather for Garlits in March. Hope to see you there.

 

No problem, I'll see you at Billetproof, can't wait.

 

Very, very, cool.

Rich

 

nads that is rad. how do you polish it? i tried to polish a shift knob i made and would just melt it.

 

Damn Nads, that's one *****in trophy. Someone's going to be REEEEEEAAAALY happy to win it.

Frank

 

I'd say it's a go nads!

 

I use a big Baldor machine I bought at a garage sale, I did all of my El Caminos stainless with it. I use finer compounds and finish it off with white jeweler's rouge, you have to move the piece around or it will melt, just go light.

 

Just finished this 'un, this one looks like a **** plug.

 

Great. Now I am going to have to redo the one I am making for BP in March !

Looks good, Nads.

Don

 

Clear acrylic doesn't work well, it shows the glue lines and you can't spread this stuff evenly, it evaporates in seconds, opaque and translucent stuff works the best. I just bought some metallic pink sheets from England to do the knobs on my El Camino.