Great job!!! Now you need to make all the Maverick guys one......then you can make us Comet guys one!!! Don't know how long it took you, but I'd bet you could sell every one you could make!!!
That's awesome. What other kinda stuff can you make? lol You could quit the day job and make us all custom Mav and Comet stuff
I need a mill in the worst way I miss being able to make anything I needed, even stuff not produced. You should make them, but rather than have the word raised, recess it, should even be faster. What kind of mill do they have, I'm hoping to get my hand on an old bridgeport, adn I also want an old south bend lathe, same stuff I ran in school, Real user friendly I think. I also used to run, setup, and do some light programing on a Fadal 4020, and a Mazak micro machine center. The mazak was by far the worst machine I have ever run Shaun
I used a plain jane mill, one of the small bench top types. I don't know how easy it would be to do it if you milled it all out so that it would be recessed. With the shifter hand being as small as it is you would have to use a very small end mill to get down in there and make all the little letteres. Plus you would have to have a cnc type of mill and I don't have one of those available. Craig, I used an epoxy to hold the emblem in place, for now it seems like it will hold it very well, but I can't really put it in the car and try it with 20.5 inches of snow on the ground . Thanks guys it really wasn't that hard if you have the tools to do it just like anything else. And believe it or not I don't think it is that uncomfortable it fells pretty good. And Dan Starns, I think Ward topped this with those sill plates.
Very cool idea Neal. It's stuff like this that keeps us all going and makes our cars that much more different. I thought Bruce had a nice idea that would put a really nice finishing touch on your handle. If you could fill the top of it with acrylic and polish it back out it would have that high school class ring effect. Either way it's great and keep up the good work. Now if you could just do the automatic shifter handle we would all be much happier.
Sorry, I meant the factory shifters. I was just rambling on though but I know there isn't enough metal there to mill down on a factory handle. There is a company making some nice restomod billet shifter handles for the original shifters that look nice but yours looks great for what you have. Keep up the good work.
Hey you could use that on a column shifter just have to drill a hole in the end of it all the way through to the exsisting hole and then you could use a set screw, (wow that would be a big set screw ) but you could use those tread to hold the handle on tight. It would be a big shifter handle but I don't think it would look all that bad really.
Original idea. Thats what you can do when you think outside the box. Really looks good Neal. Keep up the good work. Ken
