Modifying Chrome bumpers

Has anybody ever Modified any chrome bumpers? I tried to do a Google search but didn't come up with anything on Modifying chrome bumpers. What I would like to do is shave the bolt heads & then add fog light holes to it. Anybody know where I could go to get some help here?

It is just like working with any other metal bumper. When you get finished with your work just have it re-chromed and its like new.

We did a shortened and smoothed a Chevy bumper for an Astro van a few years ago and the re-chrome job was around 250.

Yeah, I been wanting a smooth chrome front bumper for my truck w/ a tag box on passenger side.

Just like they said...its basically the same thing as working with a plain steel bumper. You obviously have to grind down/off the chrome on the areas you plan on welding on.

I'm currently doing this on a 67 chevy c10 bumper. I'm shaving off the bolts, bringing in the sides, and actually taking two sections out of a spare bumper and filling in the center where the original plate goes.

When shaving the bumper bolts, I don't use the original bolts. I like to enlarge the hole, taper/countersink it, and use machine screw style bolts so they sit on there almost flush, then tig weld them up, and grind smooth. Then if you want it chrome, go get it re-chromed.

For the fog lights, use round tubing thats slightly larger then the actual fog light you plan on putting in there. Cut the holes for the tube to slide in, weld it up, and grind it smooth. Its pretty easy to do.

Good luck!

Make sure to post up some pics as you go along! We'd love to see them.

This is getting me pointed in the right direction. Thanks for the help guys.
I'm an old Painter & now I'm an Estimator for an Insurance company so as you can see I've done this before so I don't want you to think I'm a dummy on this. I've just never seen it done by anybody before. My problem is I'm a perfectionist, so I will research this & talk to a hundred people before I do it. I forgot this was called Frenching so I tried to do a search for the wrong thing on Google. What I want to see if I can do is see some pictures of somebody doing it an then I can see exactly how it's done.
Do any of you guys have any pictures of what it looked like before you sent it off to get chromed? Any after pictures? Who did you send it off to Rechrome it?