Looking forward to the shaping community

Metal Thumper · #1 08-14-2014, 07:55 PM

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 · #2 08-14-2014, 09:27 PM

Hi Mike welcome to the forum
Peter

barry grigg · #3 08-14-2014, 10:22 PM

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 · #4 08-15-2014, 06:43 AM

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 · #5 08-15-2014, 07:55 AM

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 · #6 08-15-2014, 02:29 PM

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.