yeah, what Tim sez .... only way you'll get a "smooth one piece look" is to weld a piece both sides across the seam, and do it so well it requires no filler, even lead would crack wink

Bill


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"When we tug a single thing in nature, we find it attached to the rest of the world" ~ John Muir
"When we tug a single thing on an old truck, we find it falls off" ~ me
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