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Old 12-07-2009, 10:45 AM
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I use the tape patterns if it's anything other than a low crown panel. I don't find them to useful there.

Contour gauges prove very useful as well but admittedly I rarely ever use them. I have shaped to solid bondo bucks before but if there's another way to do it I prefer the "other way". Not that one is better just that I have better luck using other means of gaining panel information.

As far as attaining the shape that the pattern shows, I am a huge fan of sharpies. I almost always lay my pattern down, find the low then circle it and take it to the wheel or hammer or whatever the chosen tool may be. It's extremely helpful to me because inevitably I will wheel in the wrong spot and over-raise or shrink whatever the area is that needs work. So a panel I'm shaping will have sharpie circles all over it lol. This is pretty simple knowledge but I thought it was worth mentioning in the context of the question.

Take that for what it's worth though, I'm not very good.
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