In this paper, the bump-type foil journal bearings is developed with five different foil materials: Inconel X750 (IN-X750), Stainless steel 316 (SS316), Beryllium copper (BC), Spring steel EN42J (SP EN42J) and Phosphor bronze (PB). To develop the bump-type FJB, a complete fabrication process is described in details along with the design of fixtures. This fabrication process includes various machining operations such as milling, rolling, cutting, threading, forming etc. The forming load versus deflection curve is obtained for all the foil materials with the metal forming operation. After fabricating it, the load-deflection test is performed to evaluate the structural characteristics of these developed bump-type foil bearings. Further, the experiment analysis of bump-type foil bearings is performed to evaluate its tribological characteristics such as wear rate and surface roughness. Moreover, the rubbing temperature of bump-type FJB is also captured by using the thermal imager. From these study, it is observed that the metal forming operation is the most challenging step in the fabrication of bump-type foil bearings. The brittleness behavior of BC foil increases after the heat treatment. The experimental results show that the minimum wear rate and maximum surface roughness of bump-type FJB is found for the IN-X750 foil due to its higher toughness and hardness. The maximum spring-back effect in bump-type FJB is found for the Spring steel EN42J. These results demonstrate that the maximum structural damping and stiffness of bump-type FJB is found for the Phosphor bronze and Inconel-X750 respectively.