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(Scratch Build) Carbon Steel **FINISHED**


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I got a lot of stuff done today and made some real progress, I finished up welding up the cage and did some test fitting cut the side panels including the panel window I evan go the top panel cut

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some glamour shots

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then I cut the side panels, the window and the top panel I am re using the aluminum from the lian li case I started from.

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than I layed everything on top of each other to get an idea what it may look like

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  • 7 months later...
finally back at it... feeling the dead line though 

first up this is a die I made for leafing.. you will see more of that latter 

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here is my thumb after I hit it with a three pound hammer

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here is my forge.. didn't have time to complete my charcoal to gas conversion so I using my cylinder with char...

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here I am doing some test fitting

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curring the interior paneling

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finished welding

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fan mounts

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rear

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I got made so I lit it on fire

 

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putting a black patina on the frame I had a video of the fire but it wasn't interesting... just a fire. the cage is black now

 

 

 

 

 

cur the corner panels and baked them... hard to photograph but the have a feint blue colloring 


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Super big hot update!!11

aka blacksmithing time!

 

I love burn days I just don't get many of them.....

 

here is my anvil ready with my tools

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my charcoal forge 

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making S scrolls

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more

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heat them up for wax patina

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Jobs done

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I am exactly this dirty

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and I got my sleeving supplies

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Today I finished drilling the side panels and windows and finished my fron facia I am going to weld everything on tomorrow so there will be another big update hopfully ill be out of the manufacturing stage. 

 

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corners cut

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I use tape to help hold the piece while I tack them in

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watch out shitty welds ahead

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cleaned up


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after baking ...

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front panel after baking and chainmail installed

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PIctures.......

 


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if its not against the rules i am going to take more pictures tomorrow in the day light to show the color of the steal

its time for a show and sleep i built this while working 12 hour days and finind time at night to slowly work on this.....i see mistakes right noe maybe tomorrow int the light i can show what i love about this case

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