a ROUGH guide to shorty mirrors

[ben doodar]

i had a bash at making some off these today. i started with this.
http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee77/bendoodar/bensphotos087.jpg
then cut 2" out and was left with this, which didnt line up at all.
http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee77/bendoodar/bensphotos090.jpg
about 3 hours worth of thinking later i then held the end piece of plastic i cut off upto the mirror and drew a line from the top and bottom off the piece i just cut off, to the center off the the mirror backing, and cut with a hacksaw into like a wedge shape but left the middle intact and bent it into place like so.
http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee77/bendoodar/bensphotos103.jpg
masking taped the 2 pieces together and around the gaps and then fibreglass mat the inside together
http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee77/bendoodar/bensphotos113.jpg
then filled and flatted to give me this.
http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee77/bendoodar/bensphotos117.jpg
this is quite a good pic to see where ive cut the mirror.
http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee77/bendoodar/bensphotos104.jpg
still needs a good few skims of filler but its allmost there now and have got the shape. will put more pics up as i go along. so far its been easyer than i thought it would of been.

[Asa-James]

smart ar$e..

looking good, nice o see when finished

[ben doodar]

woops sorry about the LARGE pics, i havnt got a clue how to make them any smaller.
XXX

[Graeme]

What about the rest of the mirror? A future up date maybe?

[ben doodar]

the outer plastic casing is the hardest part to do as you have to re-aline the lines up on it, the other part off the mirror can be chopped straight down the middle and fill back together, and ill get my mate to cut the glass down who has a glass cutter.

[brainsnova]

you could make up lots of sets for people on here that want them

[ben doodar]

you can be the first customer, how much dya want to pay???? lol.
dont think i could be ****d to do another set, and i havnt even started the other side yet. lol

[brainsnova]

i havent got a nova anymore lol

[vaughanmc]

Those look good mate, I'm really after a set as well lol

[craig green]

I can't wait to see you start the mirror surrounds...... Good effort up until now. If only I'd used fibreglass when I did mine.

[Stuart]

tbh It sounds like it would be easier to start the Surrounds/backs from scratch than to mod the existing ones..

[Ernie]

Lee did the same sort of mod wile leaving my lockup a few years back.
The end result was a very stubby mrror on one side as most of it was on the floor.
Keep up the good work but Lee's way was alot quicker.

[ben doodar]

Lee did the same sort of mod wile leaving my lockup a few years back.
The end result was a very stubby mrror on one side as most of it was on the floor.
Keep up the good work but Lee's way was alot quicker.
yh there probably is an easyer way, but once id thought how to do it, it only took half an hour or so, hopefully the other side will be easy, now i know how to do it. thanks for the comments.
XX

[Pistol Pete]

Looks good so far. Get some updated pics up when you do some more on them.

[vaughanmc]

Any more progress ? :)

[ben doodar]

Any more progress ? :)
yh i did a little more sanding the other nite, pritty much ready for primer now, but had a bit of an arguement (full on arguement) with my old man on tuesday so ive not been up his house since. lol im going to do a bit more after work, hopefully (if hes calmed down) primer them and cut the frame down tonight, will add some piccys today or tomoz, im too much of a perfectionist tho so that takes a bit more time.
cheers. X

[vaughanmc]

Nice one mate, get plenty of pics up :)

How many sets you making ?