Looking forward to the shaping community

[Metal Thumper]

Hey everyone, Mike from Rockford, IL. During the day I am a mild mannered aerospace engineer, but by night I take my frustrations out on a sandbag and some CRS and AL. Well, not lately...I recently had 3 vertebrae in my back fused together and can't bend, twist, lift or do anything much except read forums and dream about the day I can get back in the shop and start thumpin away. I am hoping to get some advice on creating a buck from a clay scale model. No high-Tech computer, CNC whizbang stuff. I want old school...clay to wood station buck. Look forward to meeting fellow shapers!

[Peter Tommasini]

Hi Mike welcome to the forum
Peter

[barry grigg]

Mike; Welcome to All Metal Shapers. I'm "looking forward" to a similar procedure this fall. Good thing for forums like this to pass the time. I sit in my chair 40' from my shop and have completed a dozen jobs in my head since spring. Watched hired help install new windows in my house. Better days ahead. All the best in your recovery.

[cameron]

Welcome, Mike.

If you want old-school, I don't think you can do better than reading up on boat lofting. The techniques are directly applicable to buck making.

Dave Cameron

[Mike Motage]

Welcome Mike, working from clay to wood station buck is route I've taken. There is a lot of helpful shapers here and several masters as well. Get dvds from Peter, David and take a class at Dagger tool in Detroit area and you be well on your way.

[Metal Thumper]

Thanks to everyone for the warm welcome.

Barry, thanks for the kind wishes. Thankfully, my surgeon says all looks good and things are healing nicely.

Cameron, oddly enough I am familiar with lofting, having built a small sailboat a while back. That was easier for me, going from an existing drawing to 3d object. I'm having difficulty going from 3d model to actual scale 3d object. I read about taking vertical slices of the model, enlarging them on an overhead and tracing the profiles to get the buck stations. I can't and don't really want to do this with my model though. It is 1/4 scale.

Mike, I do have most of Peter's DVDs and took Craig's Dagger class, all great stuff. We worked from existing bucks though and didn't learn how to make one from a clay model. I look forward to learning from the folks here on how best to get surface profiles to turn into buck stations.

[cameron]

Mike,

No need to cut up your model. There have been threads on this forum about taking the lines off an existing car. The same could be done with the model. Would be easier because of the smaller size, but the lines would have to be lofted and faired in full size.

Perhaps someone here can steer you to those threads.

Dave Cameron

[Metal Thumper]

Dave,
Thanks! I look forward to learning all about it.

[Oldnek]

G'day Mike and Welcome.

Cheers John

[David Gardiner]

Welcome to the forum Mike.

David