Wow. You are good at your craft. No doubt.

Sent from my Carl Gustav

 

The soft barn door window under construction. The window itself is mostly done and the zipper is sewn around the perimeter. Next the bottom of the window gets sewn to the shell, then the outside part of the zipper gets sewn to the shell, and finally the window opening gets cut and hemmed. By leaving the cutting/hemming of the window opening until last, the least amount of wrinkles will be introduced into the finished work. Sewing curved zippers isn't fun, that's enough for today. Probably will finish it tomorrow.

 

Once you sell this design I will be purchasing. In the meantime I'm willing to drive from WNY if you want to experiment on a Rubi JKU lol!

Keep up the good work!

 

I guess I've got too many designs in this thread ... are you talking about the soft barn door, the hard barn door or the full Safari Cab hardtop? I don't know if any of them will end up being commercial products, but I try to keep track of what people are interested in so I can relay that info to any companies that may be interested in turning anything I design into a commercial product.

Thanks for the offer, but I've got a JKU here. Probably someday I'll need a JK 2dr to test things on.

 

Finished up the sewing on the prototype soft barn door skin this morning. Clockwise from top left - outside view window rolled up, outside view rolled down, inside view rolled down, inside view rolled up.



As soon as I can borrow the JK from Heather for a bit, I'll install it and see how it works out on the Jeep.

 

I found a Rugged Ridge spare tire cover in Spice for only $18 so I picked it up to compare to the Spice fabric I'll be using for the soft sides/soft barn door and the Spice paint. It's not a bad match.



The fit is pretty good too.



Yesterday I took it down to the local decal/tshirt place along with a full-size PDF of the logo to see if they can add the Safari logo and they told me they'd charge $25 to do something like this:



I left it with them and it should be ready on Monday. I'll post photos after they finish it.

 

Safari Cab, but I'm open to anything lol.

Keep up the great work.

 

Got the tire cover back from the print shop. It looks nice, although the heat press they used to bond the logo to the cover left a slight impression on the not-too-premium Rugged Ridge fabric. I don't mind it too much, and I can probably blend it in with a household iron. Over time if it bothers me I can sew a new cover from the premium soft top fabric I've got on hand.

 

In my pile of interesting old Jeep parts I've got a Lund windshield visor that was designed to fit a CJ, it's probably from the 70's or early 80's at the latest. It adds a retro look to a vehicle, so just for fun I tried it with the Safari Cab. With only some minor modifications it could be mounted on the JK Safari...

 

That is FRIGGIN AWESOME Jeff.