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Kent's metal camp
Last Fri-Sun had 8 guys here with their focus on air hammering shapes.
I welcomed them to use my "Punishing Hammers" since four were up and ready to go: Mod's 2000, 3000, 3500 and 4000, with 6 motors in sizes #0,1,2,3,4,5 ... #6 (monster motor) was not set up for this class. P1040469.jpg Eldon Watson - 2nd gen bodyman, son is bodyman. Focus on reverses and helix and double compounds. Always asks the keen insightful questions. Photo-realistic airbrush artist - attends the competitions / top demos. Fine craftsman. P1040470.jpg Donnie Wanner, 30yr craftsman doing resto and kustoms. Started art metal art studio. Focus on conic reverses and re-shaping VW rear lid to eliminate lic.plate area, smooth. Does patina on art-cut stainless to simulate wood grain, marble, granite, etc for tree, waterfall, howling wolf/bear waterfall / bridge scenes. Real talent. P1040472.jpg Nick operates a long-time heavy fab shop in Kenai, AK. "Always doing something I've never done before." ... at age 70. Welds 7075 on log truck frames - after talking with ALCOA. Oil field stuff, gen'l fab, boats... Accurate, funny and thoughtful. Focus on expanding APH repertoir. P1040478.jpg Jackie is old friend of Nick's. Has restored two M37's, and currently owns a mil 4X6 (the rascal.) Shaping fish, cars and boats. (My old Dodge M37 arrived Sun 5AM, and he spotted it outside our shipping dock - "Hey, where'd that M37 come from???" Surprised me -1) I never heard the delivery myself - and 2) he knew what it was and all about it ... It fired right up so I drove it over to parking and shut it off. (Everybody really likes that old '53 mil Power Wagon ... !!!) So we all banged away on shapes. P1040475.jpg The fishing was good. Textured + shape at the same time. Mild steel, 20ga. P1040477.jpg Radius bending, flowing the shape in curves, planishing. 3003 .063 P1040479.jpg Shaped smoothly then planished a bit. Mild steel, 20ga. P1040481.jpg End of Metal Camp: swapping contacts, sharing some yarn. (Several were re-visitors and several have had their APH's for many years. The VW lid got re-shaped nicely, but no film or pix, that I know of. After shoving the surface down, shrinking it and shaping it smooth I used Eldon's can of Quick Check and liked it. No reducer stink or residue. Everyone graduated .... another metal camp.
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Looks to be a fun and interesting group of shapers!
Thanks for sharing their projects with us! Steve
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very cool, wish i was there!
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Thanks, you guys.
Steve, I wish you were here, too! Here are some more images of the stuff these rascals whacked out -- P1040483.jpg Bowl shapes: .035 copper, stretched, shrunk, planished and polished - no sanding/filing ... .050 3003, rough stretched, edge shrunk, flange turned out, planished, rubbed with scuffy-pad - no "real" metal finishing. .050 3003, conic bowl - started as std bowl, then shrunk and stretched into conic, until thickness at center was no more .... P1040482.jpg Reverse shape demo, using urethane soft shaping upper die and full radius lower ... smoothed with Non-Rotating reverse planishing die set. Hard buck/mockup is accurate to 1938 Waco gearleg fillet/fairing. P1040485.jpg Small demo (left) introduced shrink/stretch/reverse dies and methods of use, 3003 .050. Large demo is Max, the compound reverse shape in 3003 (annealed twice), taken from .063 down to .017. Four equal sides started at 14 inches ea and grew to 23 inches, total length per edge - as thickness went down to .017". The four corners touch on this one .... ... and I think these are all of the photos I got from this group, so far.
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Way cool 'stuff'. It would be nice if we could all live in proximity to each other to have access to such talent. Thanks for posting Kent. I always learn something.
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Kent's metal camp
Nice work by all he boys. Wish I could be there but...
Please educate me, what is APH?
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