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Here is my mailbox that I had to build in school. I also painted it. Hope you like it. Oh we didn't get to choose the color of the flames otherwise it would have been different. Its not real wood. I painted that also.

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Looks pretty cool. Also looks like one of the projects that Wyotech body fabrication students used to do.

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i would not put mail in that some jack ass might steal it, but hay thats a nice ass m-box, u got skizzles

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Weld it to the nearest object, I don't care if it's wood.

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Use to? They still do. i.e. ME

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Kinda what I thought. Are you doing both sides of the Street Rod course?

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I am done with school. graduated in december. And yes I took both sides of street rod because you have to take them together to finish the course.

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Huh? They must have changed that since 2001. I only took the chassis fab side. Is Gordon Cossett still heading the department?

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Oh! No, We just called it street rod and chassis fab. They arn't together. they are in two different buildings. I know they go hand in hand.

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Holy ------- Christ! 2 separate buildings. They used to both be in the same building with the diesel shop on West Campus. They were adding on tot the end of the then new street Rod and Chassis Fab building when I graduated. That shop ruled when I was there, can't imagine it now.

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Wow, looks sweet! Curious to know how/what tecnique you used to paint the wood? It looks real!

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very nice, the wood is ------- awesome, but the flames are a little plain.

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You will need a black base to start with. Spray that first and let dry. For the wood you need a marbleizer. Spray it on and let sit for 10 sec then take a sheet of plastic and wad it up loosely. Then drag it over the marbleizer. Do this till you get what you want. You can put knots in it by making a smaller wad and twisting the plastic. then take an old paint brush. Like you would paint a house with but with missing bristles. and detail the grain more around the knot so it looks like the grain is going around the knot. After you have what you want you need to let dry very good. the reason is that if you put the candy over the marbleizer too soon it will lift on you. So the next step is to put only orange candy over it in very very light coats. I had about 13-14 coats. It started to look brown. You could use rootbeer which is even better but all we got to use is orange. then you put intercoat clear and you are ready to flame or do whatever.
If you go to the hobby store they sell cheap bottle of candy. I don't know about the marbleizer but I think that you could use a slow drying silver and get the same effect.

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quality work

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I'd be proud to play mailbox baseball with that one, sir!

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Fork It was really hard to get the tape to turn in such a small area in the first place. Show me up.

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Joseph Davis that is the reason I gave it to my parents to put INSIDE their house. It took only about 6 days to build and paint.

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Yeah, I know, which is why I had to say it.

But, you know it's quality work if you post up to HMT, home of hater-ade, and get a full page of responses before anyone thinks to pipe up with a mailbox baseball comment. Kudos!

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hey what campus did you go to?....i just graduated in december from wyotech also......i took chassis fab and high preformance engines... i got to vote for a mailbox when i was still in school....i voted for the "cleanest" one.... it was a whiteish color with the flat yellow jaggedness going back to the rear of it......i woulda voted for yours though if it was there

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yeah thats when I graduted. But I didn't know that they had contest. I wish I would have known. Just to let you know if the pinstrip is jagged it usually means that they couldn't do it the right way.

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wow id stuff it full any day... with mail that is...

nice technique on the wood... you should paint a car like that... im sure its probably already been done on a woodie some were but the wholed car would look funny... then maybe paint fake hinges for the doors hahahahahahah

nice work...

---- you could even paint the handles to look like cabinet door handles...

and call it the box car

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That's tits but yeah, it will probably fall vitim to a bat or an M-80. Niice work though.

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thats a sweet as mailbox..... if it were in my nieghborhood it would be in order for a halfstick :6

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and i'm happy to say this is the guy who is painting my hb this summer
if all goes right whats up john

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Hey man whats going on. I havn't talked to you for a while. You know I am in denver now. Hit me up if you want to go to the bar sometime or whatever.

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Ok answer me this. Why would anyone want to bash a nice looking mailbox like this. I think that I would put out a camara out the first week just so I could catch someone and put them in jail. That would teach you bastards.

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Something about filling the mailbox full of concrete. >:D

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Good work man.

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Thats a good idea. Boy when they hit that they would wish they didn't.

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That thing is asking for a cherry bomb :P


That thing is awsome ::bigthumb::

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Looks awesome. The wood looks really good. Nice work. :y
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That wood looks crazy. I spray painted one of the neighbor kids' skateboards and did my version of marble with ceran wrap, but I can't figure out how I would make it look like wood.

Just come paint the shuttle already.

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i'd stick that fucker in the frontyard. thats a badass mailbox.

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Whats the shuttle. And to get the wood look, Look farther down I expain on how to do it.

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What's the shuttle?!?!?!?!

:7

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I am guessing that its Modes crx?

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Nice work.

This makes me wonder, how many HMTers in the Mile-High area? I thought there weren't really any. Most the guys here take ---- to shops and wouldn't change their oil to save their lives.

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Well I am one now but I came from nebraska so i don't really count. I did a whole engine swap in the street once in greely when I lived there. All these old people were coming up to me and talking with me about it. The first guy I thought was pissed at me for doing it but he continued to praise me for not being a deadbeat kid. But i will be that kid that cuts you off. >:D

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theres around 10 of us in the state, 6 in Denver and the ones I know do work on their own cars unless it takes some type of machineing

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cool, but i was expecting real flames.