Rear fender klater fron scratch

[Degnol]

Shrinker/stretchers are the cat's ass! In the right hands they can produce some amazing pieces, as you have shown. Very nice work!!!

 

[71AZFJ]

Nice Job. Very creative. You could sell these, as posted by someone earlier.

 

[Pin_Head]

You also need stretchers and shrinking tools for the inside of larger areas of sheet metal in order to make complex shapes and remove dings and wrinkles. The English wheel is gread for making expanded rounded shapes and the torch is great for shrinking local areas. Just heat the metal next to the wrinkle cherry red and hit it with a wet rag and the wrinkle is gone.

 

[waiting for time]

You also need stretchers and shrinking tools for the inside of larger areas of sheet metal in order to make complex shapes and remove dings and wrinkles. The English wheel is gread for making expanded rounded shapes and the torch is great for shrinking local areas. Just heat the metal next to the wrinkle cherry red and hit it with a wet rag and the wrinkle is gone.

I would like to have an English wheel and a pneumatic hammer but I don't have the space to put them.

 

[waiting for time]

Thanks for all the positive remarks.
It is not that dificult to do you just need to check and meassure all the time.
It's the first time I've done something like this.

 

[handcannon]

What you are doing looks great!!! You obviously have a very creative touch in your bag of skills. I really enjoy and appreciate what people can do with their hands. I've spent the last 43 years in construction, cabinetmaking and installing cabinets and understand your skills. Keep it up!!!

Don

 

[waiting for time]

What you are doing looks great!!! You obviously have a very creative touch in your bag of skills. I really enjoy and appreciate what people can do with their hands. I've spent the last 43 years in construction, cabinetmaking and installing cabinets and understand your skills. Keep it up!!!

Don

Thank you, I am suprised how well it turns out.
Its not so much creative as more analysing how does it look or needs to look in the end and what is possible with what I have.
I would have liked to try the English wheel but just don't have the space to put it in.

 

[tmarx]

Awesome work, mate !

 

[waiting for time]

Thanks Theo, I'll try to keep it interesting.

Here is an other update.
welded in the hole in the rear and finished the welds on the rear corner to.
I then cleaned it up and put solder over it, old school.
After that start shaving.

 

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finaly it starts to show.
After final assembly it will be finished.

 

[waiting for time]

started on the front lower corner.
first some cutting then some streching and shrinking.

 

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some more bending and hammering.

 

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And this is how it looks on the car.

 

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front getting in to shape.

 

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getting the shape just right.

 

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Some tacking and hammering.
There was a lot of wind so the welding was difficult, gas kept blowing away.
And of corse my poor welding skills didn't help.

 

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And now on the vehicle.
This should be the right position.

 

[bikersmurf]

 

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Started copying the other side, it is easyer to do that when the left side is still unattached.
The second one is a lot easyer took about 30% of the time to get the upper corners cut, shaped and tacked.

 

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Got the other side done to, next weekend the first one goes in. Pics wil follow shortly.