The Judge

[Zeeman]

Well, the Australian ones are mostly laminated.. Toughened glass is used for the side windows. Toughened glass tends to break 'all at once' rather than the localised break pattern of laminated glass (ie you can still see out the windscreen.)

Anyway, there's no reason you can't tackle this task yourself, if you can get a couple of cheap windscreens.

[BusyKiwi]

Thanks for the pictures

cutting straight glass is easy, cutting curved glass is a skill in itself.
I tried cutting down a escort screen for a roof chopped i did moons ago, was great until that last trim broke it.
Also remember cutting the bedford screen down for a roof chop requires 3 cuts, across the top and down the sides.

A cheap windscreen to try on is $300 (and probably plus gst which is 15% on top)

[Zeeman]

I'd be trying on a couple of second hand windscreens, myself.. shouldn't be too hard to pick up a couple with chips from the wreckers..

[BusyKiwi]

As Garry said, all our vans have toughened glass, only way to get a laminated one would be to buy a new one

[Rogue Trooper]

As Garry said, all our vans have toughened glass, only way to get a laminated one would be to buy a new one

As who said? 

[BusyKiwi]

oops,  sorry Rogue

Would still be keen on pictures of the lower screen of The Judge

[BusyKiwi]

anyone?

[MaTTe]

Busy, i have a screen with a big chip in it here, but for the time effort and $$$ to ship it to you, i dont think it'd be a great advantage over a new one.

Looking at that article of zeemans is basically what we had to do just to rebuild the support under my windscreen to standard.
Personally I think recessing is a better option, its an effort yes but it saves you the effort with the next windscreen you have to put in, as you are likely to break one driving around if you do go to the effort of chopping it.. im pretty sure that falls under 'Murphys Law'

take good measurements of the screen cavity before you start (you'll obviously have to find a standard van for this) we cut some lengths of steel for various different spots across the cavity, and then used them to check our progress as we went.

You have a big job ahead of you, however looking at the skills you've shown so far with the van, i have no doubt that it is well within your reach.

I hope this helps.
Cheers,
Matte