A little while back a friend of mine wanted to do something special for his younger brother who started at Oklahoma State University in August. So what better to do for a new college student than to encourage massive drinking?!?!?! He decided to build him a kegerator. He luckily came across a fridge for free and just needed the kegerator setup. He ordered the kit from a website but really wanted to make it special. So he came to me. I found a high resolution image of Cowboy Pete and very slowly converted it into something we could cut out on the plasma cutter at work. I cut it out of 20 guage mild steel and he took it back home to finish it up. I thought he was going to paint the fridge orange and the metal black, but he did something a bit better. Click the ‘read more’ link to see the pictures.

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I finally got around to starting the Fabrication category here on Hooked On Fonix. It will be comprised of the projects I am working on at work, mainly after they are complete as to not drag them out over several posts. Here is the first of this new category!

We received a call from a gentleman with a 1974 Ford Bronco that he wanted us to do some work on. He wanted a roll cage to protect his family when cruising around town and the occasional mild offroading. We picked the vehicle up and brought it to the shop.
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