Newbie from NZ
 

Hi All, Andy here from New Zealand, found this site by accident when looking for info on Ewheels, am currently restoring a 1936 chev pick up and need to repair the rear guards.
Congradulations on an excellent site.:)

Welcome Andy, we have several members from your hemisphere at least. Actually I believe we have a couple Kiwis and several Aussies.

They'll pipe up soon.

thanks
 

Thanks Kerry,

Made a stump last night, and have just ordered Davids DVD, and am off to the shed to try and make a mallet on the lathe, (not many baseball bats over here and I don't think a cricket bat would make a good replacement).:D
My wife is begining to think she has become a shed widow....:rolleyes:

Welcome aboard Andy. You get the stump and mallet sorted out, and "shed widow" will know exactly where you are ;)
You'll also find some good short footage on youtube. I believe Davids DVD is pretty informative, and will have to order myself a copy also.

Shrapnel :cool:

Good bring my friggen DVD,s back Then I'll borrow your one of David's for a few months.:lol:

Oh yeah welcome aboard there Andy, What part of the country are you from ?

cheers
 

Cheers for the welcome, we are about an hour south of Dunedin just past Milton.
Will post some pics later. (when I figure out how.....):lol:

photos
 

Ok here are some pics

http://www.allmetalshaping.com/pictu...pictureid=1884



This is the stump and mallet I made, this week, I've incorporated the channel that Johnny Arial posted about on 'improving my stump' the dish and channel were made with a chainsaw and 5" grinder.
The mallet is the mk2 version.. Mk1 suffered from catastrophic failure when fitting the handle.:rolleyes:






http://www.allmetalshaping.com/pictu...pictureid=1883

These are 3 of my chevs, My goal is to fabricate the rear guards for the 1936 (foreground), flatten the hood ( was blasted by the previous owner and is now wavy), repair the doors and and cab corners where some one has replaced the rolled beaded edge with 6mm (1/4") solid bar that looks hideous.

Let me know what you think about that extra hollow you made.

I still have not added mine.

Since your hammer broke, make it bigger next time so you don't have to swing as hard:D

Thanks for the pictures and welcome aboard

Thanks for the pic's Andy. Love the pick-up's. Did you use a baseball bat to make your mallet ? Stump looks good too.

Shrapnel :cool:

mallet
 

I turned the mallet down on my wood lathe, it was from a piece of hard wood thats been kicking around in the shed for years, the handle was from a broken maddock (grubber) this is the mk2 mallet,the mk 1 version split as I 'gently' fitted the handle but that was a weaker wood.:(