i didnt add the fact that i bevel the ends of the tubing. i just take that as a must in the step.
in this business, anyone who buys some tools becomes a fab guy. brad and i bump heads over some designs, but we both see the ways of the other, that is why i love building rigs. i love that i can see an idea and change it to make it exactly what i envision.
i used to think i had to be the biggest or the best, but i truely enjoy seeing happy people in rigs i build.
i have yet to get my rig going, and as brad knows, when you build to pay bills, you get the short end of the stick. i am gracious enough to have a friend and customer like barret. he lets me try things out on his and brake stuff. well i think he has ended me braking stuff though.
customers and friends like keith, who is kinda like a hero to me, with his nothing holding me back attitude and his passion for doing things folks think he cant. i love building something and someone who doesnt know how to wheel, all of a sudden researches and starts camping and wheeling and showing off their pride in what i have built for them.
i take extreme pride in what i build, and that in turn takes longer for me to build things. i find it very hard to take critisism sometimes. i dont know alot of people personally. so their backgrounds are non existant to me.
i do appreciate when someone asks me why i did that. through the computer, you never know their true demeanor. so i try to look at it as if they really want to know. i am happy to tell my thoughts. if they are wrong and justifiably wrong, then i have gained some inexspensive knowledge.
one of these days i will complete my rig and wheel it alot. for know, i will watch folks like wheelchairman, project92yj, barret and others enjoy what i created in their vision. the sad part about my rig, i get so far, then come up with a new design and then change mine all around. i get started for a week or two when i am slow, then get busy and it goes on the back burner.
i really appreciate the comment, i didnt like your work, but now im digging it, i see the improvement. i have to say that was the most honest down to earth comment i have had yet, and lets me know that i am on the right path.