When this custom tailgate is done it will work with the factory hard top.
If anyone can even lift it back up!

Your welder is quite good, does he have a B and stainless ticket? I could use him!

But, he is good. Take note folks, thats what carbon steel tig is supposed to look like. Just enough heat to make a puddle, melt in the filler rod, and get good fusion. Very little colour distortion to indicate a large heat affected zone. That's where the failures happen.
Hats off Jay, you've got yourself a *very* competent tig operator.