You know that's not a bad idea we have two steel places locally, and cutting the templates would be pretty straight foward, for a steel place. It just seemed to me when we purchased some scrap for our house addition, that it cost a fair amount of cash for some small scraps. But I just called a scrap yard and they sell it for about 90 cents a pound! I figure your right I could save a bundle. The company that makes the precuts also makes tubulat x frames for my setup, but again its 400 bucks for the x-frame and 100 to ship.so maybe I'll get creative!