Take the shape you have in your head (of the piece you want to make out of metal) and make a template on some thin cardboard. Use the template to transfer your shape to some 3/4" mdf and cut it out. In this case I cut multiple mdf profiles out because I want a top hammerform and a wide edge profile to help shape the sides of the oilbag.
Make your first mdf profile nice and smooth on the edges with a sandpaper/block, palm sander, belt sander, whatever you have to do the job. This is so you can easily clean up the rest of your rough cut mdf profiles using a router and a flush cut bit riding on your first clean mdf piece, making them all exactly the same (if you want to be picky). You can hand duplicate these with simple tools, the router just speeds the process up.
Change the router bit to the roundover profile you want and rout the top edge of your top profile. You can hand rasp/sand to round the edge over if you don't have a router.
Screw all you pieces together and you have your finished form, ready to hammer on.
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Re-makes
Thursday, November 24, 2011
15 hours
That's around how long it took to get the electrics box to this point. I know you're saying "finish that thing already and take pics of something more interesting", but I'm documenting my path into forming and welding aluminum. I find myself welding steel mostly, and aluminum tig welding is, to say the very least, different.
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011
My dream
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Die, die, my darling
Saturday, November 19, 2011
Friday, November 18, 2011
Mocking
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Friday, November 11, 2011
Work van
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Todd's build
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
working on stuff
Got a couple new products we're working on here @ Barnstorm Cycles and SPCL'79 Fabrication. 304 stainless battery boxes (2 sizes) in welded or kit form and 39mm narrowglide stainless headlight ears for Bates style side mount headlights. Both are still going though a little more r&d, but are pretty close to being available.
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