View Single Post
  #35  
Old 05-23-2009, 08:10 PM
David Gardiner David Gardiner is offline
MetalShaper of the Month
May 2009, Jan 2012, Dec 2014
 
Join Date: May 2009
Location: England
Posts: 5,325
Default

Kerry thats one hell of an undertaking! How long have you been building it, you probably said but I have not read the whole thing just skimmed it (its late I will have a better look soon)

You are right it would have been a lot quicker to make a wooden buck, its the traditional way! ( I know I keep going on about the traditional methods but they knew a thing or two in the early days). If you are doing a one off like yours the normal thing to do is to build a station buck of one half and make the panels for this half, I cut out all the sections for the panels for the second half at the same time, the buck is them dissasembled and reasembled the other way round. In this way the two halfs come out the same. You get a symetrical body for half the work on the bucks. Its possible to incorperate wire into the buck so areas that you used a wire buck for could still have been done that way.

You have done an amazing job though. I know how much work is in a thing like this.
__________________
Metalshaping DVD. www.metalshapingzone.com
Metalshaping with hand tools on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGElSHzm0q8

All things are possible.
Reply With Quote