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I DID NOT WELD AN INCH ON THESE THINGS!!! I recently had a large project for someone who is working on finishing their log house and building a new barn. I had to make a few gates and these brackets. I cut all of these by hand. The brackets had to be 5"x6" and the design couldn't be over 5". I cut 2 of each design and 10 blank 5"x6" brackets. The person I made it for welded the pipe to them, sand blasted them, and painted them. I just had to cut the brackets. Fun easy project, unfortunately I miscalculated how many he wanted made and under priced it horribly, but made up for it elsewhere ;)
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It's always best to build your own, especially when it comes to hitches!!!
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By the way, all of those were hand cut. Yes even the square parts on the bottom were free hand cut. :D
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Sweet!!! 8-)
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Thanks, it was fun cutting them that small. We made all of those designs larger before but not that small before. :)
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Wow, that is very nice. I don't think I could do those free hand, at least not without some practice runs first.
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Thanks guys. I was so upset when I saw the welds the guy did. I would have tigged it and made it look good but he ended up mig welding them and went too fast from what I could see and stopped a lot and didn't tie in too good. I worked so hard on them things. I had to do 10 of them and 10 blanks. I cheated on the blanks, I hand cut a 4 foot long strip 5" wide and took it to the chop saw and cut it every 6" so I didn't have to hand cut all of them. :D
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Those look great - they really add some character to the railing.
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All right... I'm going to be accused of being the language police...

Those are balustrade brackets, not banistrade brackets.

A balustrade is level. A banistrade decends a stairway or ramp.

Yeah, I know, I'm separating fly turds from pepper... It's like the difference between muntons and mullions in a divided-light window.

:roll:

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Otto Nobedder wrote:All right... I'm going to be accused of being the language police...

Those are balustrade brackets, not banistrade brackets.

A balustrade is level. A banistrade decends a stairway or ramp.

Yeah, I know, I'm separating fly turds from pepper... It's like the difference between muntons and mullions in a divided-light window.

:roll:

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Steve I am in West Virginia, ain't nothin' level here :lol:
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