The manufacturers price makes perfect sense. It took me about two hours to fab it and polish it up. If you take all my cost into account i.e. material, time, consumables (electricity, grinding disk, filler rod, shield gas, etc.) I could make them for that but you would not have near the quality that the manufactured ones do. I simply decided to make it instead of buy it because I enjoy doing that sort of thing. I think that the stainless is 8 gauge but im not sure, it probable could have been a little heavier but that is what I had laying around.
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