Has anybody made their own tops? Let's see them for ideas

I'm intrested in seeing what people have done for hard tops or soft tops! Let's see what great ideas can be shared!

 

Several people have. Making a soft top is not very hard, making a hard top is harder but mostly only because of the doors. I think it would be straight forward making one with no doors.

I am going to make my own hard top later this year and I will do a build thread. I started already actually but I started with metal and I have decided to do fiberglass instead

 

Keep me posted! I'd love to follow along and attempt your steps

 

Go over to the CJ2A site, JPet made his own top and tells how he did it.

 

http://www.thecj2apage.com/forums/make-your-own-canvas-top_topic10355.html

 

Here is what I did on my CJ6. This was only for shade. It would not help in a sustained rain.

http://www.earlycj5.net/forums/showthread.php?82253-North-Texas-CJ6/page7

 

This link is kind of amazing

 

Here's my (hopefully) last stupid question of 2014: can a CJ be fitted to handle both a hard top for winter, *and* a soft top for the rest of the year? Or does the mounting hardware get in the way of each other?

 

I never had much of a problem on my CJ3B. Remove the 4 bolts that held the brackets for the soft top bows and that was about it. My neighbor across the street changes his tops. About all he has to do is remove 4 screws on the top of his windshield to get the retainer strip off that his soft top needs.
Actually it's more of a PITA to get the soft top on his daughters newer Jeep.