total darkside '55 in progress (still)
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total darkside '55 in progress (still)
Finally uploaded some pictures. Warning to purists... no clicky.
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Thanks for the kind words
Stephen67 - you nailed it... the instrument cluster is from a '72 Bronco.
AXRacer - I have been reading "Professor Hammer" (by Ron Covell) in street rodding magazine and Classic Trucks magazine for years, and I picked up a sheetmetal basics book a while ago. I ordered a beater bag and a mallet from Eastwood, and bought a planishing hammer from harbor freight and a shrinker/stretcher from Summit racing. This was my fourth project on this truck at hammer forming metal. The others were the striker plate recesses on the door jambs (no longer recessesed), the stock fuel filler location, and a section of the firewall to match the opposite side. I couldn't believe how perfectly this piece of steel formed on the first try... partially luck, I think.
- Jon
Stephen67 - you nailed it... the instrument cluster is from a '72 Bronco.
AXRacer - I have been reading "Professor Hammer" (by Ron Covell) in street rodding magazine and Classic Trucks magazine for years, and I picked up a sheetmetal basics book a while ago. I ordered a beater bag and a mallet from Eastwood, and bought a planishing hammer from harbor freight and a shrinker/stretcher from Summit racing. This was my fourth project on this truck at hammer forming metal. The others were the striker plate recesses on the door jambs (no longer recessesed), the stock fuel filler location, and a section of the firewall to match the opposite side. I couldn't believe how perfectly this piece of steel formed on the first try... partially luck, I think.
- Jon
#12
Thanks for the kind words
Stephen67 - you nailed it... the instrument cluster is from a '72 Bronco.
AXRacer - I have been reading "Professor Hammer" (by Ron Covell) in street rodding magazine and Classic Trucks magazine for years, and I picked up a sheetmetal basics book a while ago. I ordered a beater bag and a mallet from Eastwood, and bought a planishing hammer from harbor freight and a shrinker/stretcher from Summit racing. This was my fourth project on this truck at hammer forming metal. The others were the striker plate recesses on the door jambs (no longer recessesed), the stock fuel filler location, and a section of the firewall to match the opposite side. I couldn't believe how perfectly this piece of steel formed on the first try... partially luck, I think.
- Jon
Stephen67 - you nailed it... the instrument cluster is from a '72 Bronco.
AXRacer - I have been reading "Professor Hammer" (by Ron Covell) in street rodding magazine and Classic Trucks magazine for years, and I picked up a sheetmetal basics book a while ago. I ordered a beater bag and a mallet from Eastwood, and bought a planishing hammer from harbor freight and a shrinker/stretcher from Summit racing. This was my fourth project on this truck at hammer forming metal. The others were the striker plate recesses on the door jambs (no longer recessesed), the stock fuel filler location, and a section of the firewall to match the opposite side. I couldn't believe how perfectly this piece of steel formed on the first try... partially luck, I think.
- Jon
A hardwood log ~12-16" diameter, bark stripped, makes a good work surface. Some will carve or grind a bowl shaped depression in the top to work in directly for forming shallow shapes and/or to keep their beater bag from sliding around. I like using an adjustable height office chair or drafting stool on casters to sit on, it allows me to adjust my position and move around my piece quickly and easily. It also helps in resisting the urge to work out of position rather than changing it.
Keep it up!
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Finally uploaded some pictures. Warning to purists... no clicky.
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