Hi all metal shaping people out there.
I just want to tell you what we are doing on the Step 2 class in Metal shaping this last week at LAZZE Inc, here in Pleasanton, CA.
We building a 36 Roadster body from flat sheet of steel, we begin with the firewall as a zero point so we know where we can hook up the new panels us making.
It’s always good to start from the front and move back and work on left and right side in the same time, so in this case we start making the cowl panels, both right and left side in the same time, than it’s easier to keep them uniform/symmetrical.
Then we make the doors and tack weld those together to the inner frame and when we have them together with the frame we can tack weld the together with the cowl panel, it’s important to keep the body the same from side to side and check all kinds of cross measuring to get it right.
The next is to make the rear quarter panels and tack welds those together to the doors, now it begins to take the shape of a car body.
For every panel we making now and put them together we can see the car body coming together and it’s really fun after we spent a few days just making panels.
To hold the panels together when we scribe for the final cut and also when we hold the panels together when we tack weld them we using very strong magnets, it makes it so much easier and we saving so much time.
Think about this when you look at those pictures, What we can do to a sheet is four things: we can cut, bend, shrink and stretch, that’s all we can do to a sheet and when you break it down to those four elements we can begin to understand Metal shaping and create what we want, this technique has no limitations, it doesn’t matter what we decide to do, we can do it because we controlling the sheet and it’s fun..
To see the progress of the project go to www.lazzemetalshaping.com
We’ll be at the LA Roadster show June 20-21 and maybe the 36 project will be there, look as up we’ll have a both there.
The tools/machines we using is the Lazze’s English wheel, Bead roller and shrink/stretcher, hammer and dolly, and some other hand tools.
For more info about the Hands on Classes, Online video training and tools/machines go to www.lazzemetalshaping.com
I'm looking forward to seeing you in one of the classes, Lazze
