Another new member from down under.
 

Hi there everyone.
A little about me.
My name is David, I am on a few car forums and known in all of them as Boxhead (A name my father inlaw gave me).
I live in a country towm called Alice Springs, in the Northern Territory in Australia (very close to the exact centre of Australia)

I am a qualified motor mechanic by trade but have always had a love or fascination with body building, Life has gotten me to the stage where I have now been able to afford to buy some tools and have a go at metal work.
To that end I have built my new work shed, and bought some tools, these include an English wheel, shrinker stretcher, plannishing hammer, 4 ft pan brake, sand blaster, sand blast cabinet, AC/DC high frequency TIG and a plasma cutter.
I do also have the smaller "normal" hand tools, but would like to get better quality hammer and dollie sets and sand bag/hammer set.
I have some smaller projects I would like to have a go at before later attempting a complete car body (Daytona Cobra)

Here are my new toys (forgive me if I sound like a proud Dad).
http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/j...d/photo-69.jpg

http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/j...d/photo-70.jpg

Where the fun times should happen.
http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/j...30074Small.jpg

First project will be to make some small guard protectors in alloy for the leading edge on my Cobra.

Then later hope to turn this.
http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/j...d/P1020180.jpg

Side view.
http://www.imcdb.org/i234274.jpg

Into something like either of these.
http://members.iinet.net.au/~sambo75/hawk4.jpg

or
http://members.iinet.net.au/~sambo75/hawk7.jpg

The hawk was a freeby that was destined for the tip, so no harm if I try and fail.

So now it is time to learn.

Welcome David!
Let the FUN begin!:D

David, welcome and thanks for the introduction. Looks like you have the beginning of a nice shop. Hope you find the site interesting and helpful with you projects. Thanks for joining us.

Welcome to the site David from another David. You have quite a collection of tools there for a beginer!. Your workshop is nice! It looks bigger than mine and I have to earn my living from my little space with two of us working in there. Thats the trouble with living in on a little island like the UK.

David

Cheers guys and thanks for the welcome.
I stayed up way too late last night going through some pages in here, WOW there are some great projects out there.

David, I will be sending you some money soon to buy a DVD.

hi David,
And welcome from another Aussie.

Cheers Dale

Hi David. Welcome to the site. I love the look of the Sled Hawk way cool.

hi david i still have shed envy

g'day from a Kiwi soon to be Gold Coaster...