Hello from sunny Pheonix, AZ

[Jonathan]

Hey fellas (and ladies). In accordance with the rules, I shall share a piece of myself with you.

I work at a Hot Rod shop here in town. I perform most of the metal work/restoration type stuff and getting the car bodies back into shape. I dig it. I am looking to advance my knowledge of metal shaping and the tools used to do it, so I wanted to join this site to access the many splendors of its users knowledge.

I have a beard.

Here are a few of the projects I've been fortunate to be a part of.
My first chop:


My second:


This car was a basket case. Replaced both quarters, door skins, fixed a poorly pieced together roof and a bad chop. It challenged every bit of me:


Thanks for your time.
Jonathan Wililams

jw

[Joe Hartson]

Jonathan, welcome and thanks for the introduction. Looks like you have some experience and do nice work. Hope you share more of your work with us. Thanks for joining us.

[kenb]

Originally Posted by Jonathan

My first chop:


jw

Welcome Johnathan,

I'm impressed with your first chop! I've never tackled anything like this myself, but from what I've read, setting up a roof like that is somewhat tougher to deal with than your average run of the mill chopping operation. Nothing like jumping in the deep end eh?

Details like sloping the back window properly, blending the roof into the trunk, and dealing with the rear side windows boggles my mind frequently on a roof like that. You made nice work of it that's for sure, it looks terrific!

Enjoy yourself on the website.

Ken

[David Gardiner]

Hell Jonathan, welcome to the site, looks like you do some nice work. When you said you replaced both quarters and doorskins on the '32 did you make them and fit them?

David

[HEATNBEAT]

Welcome aboard Jonathan!
nice chop on the Merc
I have heard that only 1 out of a 100 chopped Mercs come out right
this is one of them.

[Jonathan]

Thanks for the compliments guys. I had lots of help from my mentor with the Merc, but all the work was performed by me. I am very proud of it and agree that it flows very nicely. Sure I'm a little biased, but there do seem to be some really ugly chops out there. There was lots of talking and looking, then more talking, then work. . . repeat! Unfortunately the customer ran out of money and had to pull the car. I hope the car will get to be finished someday!

David- I did not make the quarters and skins for the '33. I wish I could. Our shop doesn't have the necessary equipment for a job like that, nor do I have the skills to make something like a quarter in a timely fashion, yet.

One of the quarters came from Steve's Auto and the other from a fella in the mid west named Don Smart (I think that was his name), which was hand fabricated and was quite nice.

[steve.murphy]

Hi Jonathan.
You do nice work, Nice shop too. I was by today dropping off the blue SSR with a friend.

Steve

[David Gardiner]

Well Steve stick around and you could soon be making that stuff!.

David