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Posted: 24 Mar. 2023 at 10:26pm |
It's been a long winter and my shop is unheated so I haven't been doing much on the jeeps this winter. With the warmer temps recently I've been getting the itch to do something... anything to them! The other day I was "internetting" and I saw some old car with a vintage license plate frame and I thought "That looks kinda cool...." so I did some research and found some on eBay. The ones on eBay were like 60 bucks and I thought "That's not kinda cool..." so I kept looking. I found some that were close at summit racing for like 20 bucks, but I really liked the text that some of the vintage ones had for old car dealers or something like that. Then I thought I might be able to make something that might be kinda cool.... I know it's a small, trivial thing, but I was bored and wanted to make something so come on a journey with me. Searching the Google, I found that these are the kind I like. That rounded corner design with a text box at the bottom. |
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I took a picture of my plates and measured them, then went into Corel Draw and drew up something that I liked. I imported the picture of my plates and scaled everything up the correct size so I could see what they would look like. Since the old timey plates were more rounded than todays rectangular-ish plates, I had to thicken the entire frame to hide the corners. I'm ok with that I think. Edited by Scratch - 24 Mar. 2023 at 10:40pm |
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Next I loaded the cut file onto my CNC plasma cutting table software... Before I started cutting up steel, I will sometimes have my CNC draw up my design on cardstock with a pen or sharpie to see if the design will work. I wanted to make sure the square corners would be hidden well, so I attached my pen tool first. This is just 2 pieces of PVC pipe with a sharpie poking through a hole in the bottom, then I literally just use masking tape to stick it to my table. It's not very high tech, but it works great! I threw a sheet of cardstock on there and weighted it down with some chunks of steel then hit go and watched the artist do his thang. Edited by Scratch - 24 Mar. 2023 at 10:42pm |
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Here it is all drawn out. Then I cut it out with a scissors and an exacto knife. |
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and wa-la!
(That's redneck for Voila)
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I put it on top of my plates to make sure it covers what I want and don't want. Looks good to me! I could also be crazy and put the text box at the top if I wanted. |
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I tossed some 14 ga steel on the table then cut out a couple. |
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I cleaned them up and sprayed some paint on them, but I forgot to take a pic. I wanted to do chrome but I couldn't find any at the store. I also heard the chrome spray paint is pretty jankity looking so I may do some more research on that... or not. If anyone has had any good results with a brand of chrome spray paint, let me know. While the paint was drying I used my vinyl cutter to cut out some text to put on the plates. I cut out some as decals and some as stencils for painting. |
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Here's how they turned out. The top one is chrome (metallic aluminum) for my painted 46 and 48. The middle one I painted ODG (the color looks way off in this pic!) for my restored '44 GPW, and the bottom one is for my patina 46. I'm happy with them. I wish it was chromed like the old-timey ones are so hopefully I'll find some good chrome paint. I guess I could try black too... I have Historic Military Vehicle plates coming so the blue/red on the middle plates will soon be ODG/white. I need to put them on four jeeps and I think it'll be nice that they all say Flatfender Farms on them! I know it's not really necessary, but it was cheap, quick and easy to do, and I think it looks better than un framed plates at least. Plus I got my itch scratched to work on something jeep related.
Edited by Scratch - 24 Mar. 2023 at 10:49pm |
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Looks great. Excellent job
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Mike in AZ
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Those are cool!
Nice work. Any chance you could send me a scan so I can make a pair for myself?
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Sure, give me your email. You can pm it if you want. Did you want like a dxf or what?
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Dfx is fine
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I’m constantly amazed at the skills and creativity of the members of this group. Really nice work.
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Those are so great
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PM sent
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Email sent.
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Sooooo, Steve, what are you charging us unskilled ditch diggers for a few of these fine products ?
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