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Old 03-08-2012, 04:23 PM
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Default Hobby Farmer and Street Rodder from SW PA

Restoring my grandfather's 34 Chevy is what got me into metal working. The guys on the Southern Polyurethanes site generously got me through to this point, but I have come to realize that I have never learned the correct way to shape metal (even though I had to make a tone of stuff for this car). I paid to have a local shop to do what you see to the fenders below. I bought David Gardner's DVD, and used his methods to fix my fenders. Now I am hooked! Now I want to make some "clam shell" fenders for one of our old Ford tractors. I look forward to attending some meets as well.

Thanks to Dan Pate for bringing me over to this site.






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Old 03-08-2012, 04:52 PM
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Eric, welcome and thanks for the introduction. Hope you find the site helpful and enjoyable. Tried to get your pictures to show but no luck there. Thanks for joining us.
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Old 03-08-2012, 07:03 PM
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Welcome to the site Eric
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Old 03-08-2012, 08:13 PM
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Welcome Eric.

I think the photos on this page are what you were trying to post -

http://www.spiuserforum.com/showthre...ork-acceptable
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Old 03-08-2012, 08:27 PM
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Welcome Eric.

I think the photos on this page are what you were trying to post -

http://www.spiuserforum.com/showthre...ork-acceptable
Man, you're good. I dont know why I didnt just do that. Are you a member over at SPI?
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Old 03-08-2012, 11:32 PM
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Hi and welcome Eric!
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Old 03-09-2012, 09:03 AM
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Since I haven't figured out how to do pictures the right way yet. Here is another link. I will be painting the front fenders and running boards this spring. After that, I need to learn how to do interior

http://www.spiuserforum.com/showthre...-window)/page4
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Old 03-09-2012, 07:10 PM
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Welcome in from the dark to AllMetalShaping Eric.

If you'll look in the events page, you'll see a thread for the Dutch meet in July. http://allmetalshaping.com/forumdisplay.php?f=6

That's the one that OldGoaly wouldn't tell you about.

There is another meet in Frederic MD called the Gator Meet.

All this is in the events forum.

Regarding posting photos, everything you need to know is in this post:

http://allmetalshaping.com/forumdisplay.php?f=6
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Old 03-10-2012, 02:14 AM
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Hi Strum, I am glad you found the DVD inspiring. We made some tractor fenders here a little while ago...



Is this the sort of thing you have in mind? they were easy enough to make untill it came to the wire edge which was 5mm (1/4") rod. this caused no end of difficulties.

Here is a link to the tread showing a little more and some more photos which may help. http://allmetalshaping.com/showthread.php?t=1468&page=6
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Old 03-10-2012, 02:07 PM
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Yes David, the DVD helped a lot. Thanks for the link too, that is some really nice work. I attached some pictures of fenders like the ones I would like to make. They are for a Ford 960. I was thinking about contacting Gator to see if they would be a good project to bring to Gatormeet.

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