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Old 03-13-2015, 09:57 AM
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Love this saying -

Frederic Chopin — 'Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.'

When I initially made the front section the top ridge had a taper to it. Not big I thought, 1/10" over 48", until I made the quarter/corner panel to match it. Well, I chopped it out and corrected the problem. Here are the new quarter's taking shape.

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Old 03-19-2015, 10:47 PM
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I'm loving this...it's making me excited to get more fab tools, and to learn/practice more!
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Old 03-20-2015, 07:00 AM
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Much nicer design, looking good.

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Old 04-30-2015, 10:59 AM
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Jay and Jim thanks. Here are the front two quarters. The drivers side is a further along then the passenger side. The passenger quarter is raw, just finished ox welding. OX welding may have not been the right decision for welding this type of panel. A lot of heat = planishing. I used the mig for the back quarters.

I am still struggling with the planishing. Some parts of the bumper can only be hammered on one side. Others can be hit from both sides but the original weld line still exists( the difference between machine and hand planishing???). Still others are sharp corners that have small margins for error.

Thank goodness my bondo skills are at a higher level than my metal skills.

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Old 06-18-2015, 01:05 PM
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The front end is now one piece. Last week I started on the corner pieces.

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Old 06-19-2015, 09:38 AM
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keep it up! looks great
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Old 06-24-2015, 09:11 PM
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Brent, thanks for the encouragement. Summary of steps for each corner piece: wheeled primary curve, blocked major stretched line on a stump, used notched part of the stump bend/fold corner over. The notched stump comes in big for those little pieces. I could of used a set of Hoosier's 1x3 lower anvils for some of the work. Lacking those anvils, I threw every hammer I had at them. Checkout the vintage hammer from the UK(not the yellow one).

The next pictures is the start of the last two pieces for the front bumper. To make a piece, I mainly use paper patterns and cut the steel a little larger than pattern. As the piece is worked I whittle away excess with tinsips. The Mikata sander comes in handy during the latter stages. I go through plenty of foil tape in the process. The tape is nice as it is conductive.

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Old 07-11-2015, 09:13 PM
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The front is tack welded together. Up to now, the rear panel was still in three pieces. It is now tack welded together. My plan was to finish weld it, but a bone-head move with a tree saw lead to 10 stitches in my left hand. I am fortunate as it was headed for my melon.

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Old 07-11-2015, 10:53 PM
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I just noticed you are stretching your panel to bend it but it appears the front piece of metal is straight vertical? maybe try stretching only where it meets the V out of the side panel. less crown in the corner
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most recent pics look great!
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