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Old 12-28-2010, 06:25 AM
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G'day everyone, my name is Jimmy. I live in Nothern New South Wales, Australia.

I am relatively new to metal shaping. I have been building a 1925 Chev roadster for the past 4 years doing the work myself.
I have built a English wheel that is 95% complete I just need to finish some bracing and I am about half way done building a planishing hammer.

Recently I tried my hand at making up some new Chev roadster 1/4 panels for a future project.






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Old 12-28-2010, 09:04 AM
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A man with pictures,now that is an intro.

Nice Buck did you use the Buck as a hammer form? _
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Old 12-28-2010, 10:15 AM
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Welcome Jimmy!
Nice work, we all love pictures
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Old 12-28-2010, 12:27 PM
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you say your relatively new, man, i'm still in the womb. nice work.
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Old 12-28-2010, 09:55 PM
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A man with pictures,now that is an intro.

Nice Buck did you use the Buck as a hammer form? _
Hey Johnny, yes I did use the buck as a hammer form, it was the only way with my skills to do it. This project was an experiment to see if I could. I am pretty happy with how it turned out. Since I was able to make a set there wont be a need to search for another roadster body which are rarer than hens teeth. I will end up trying to build a complete new body. Hopefully I will start that in the new year.



I did a thread on the HAMB a while back if you want to see the full build
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/s...1233&showall=1

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Old 12-28-2010, 10:04 PM
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Welcome Jimmy!
Nice work, we all love pictures
Thank you Rick! I love pictures too, they help me visualize, as I don't always understand the explanations.


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you say your relatively new, man, i'm still in the womb. nice work.
Thank you Scott, haha, good line. I'm learning as I go, I don't like to say I can't do something if I haven't tried. Sometimes I pull it off, sometimes I crash and burn.

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I love that

How did you make up the buck? It looks really good
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Old 12-28-2010, 10:37 PM
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How did you make up the buck? It looks really good
Thank you. The bucks are made from 5/8" structural plywood. I made cardboard templates then transfered the shape to plywood, cut the shape and screwed to the main backing. the gaps were filled with more ply and shaped with 24 & 36 grit sanding pad on a 4" grinder. They were then ready to be used. It took me about 1 week to build the bucks.
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Old 12-29-2010, 07:23 PM
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another ozi how goods that great work mate keep it up
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Old 12-30-2010, 08:42 AM
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Jimmy, Thanks for joining us and posting the pictures of your project.
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