You are most definitely offering up "inside baseball" working knowledge on body repair (sheet metal work, etc.). Home run on that electric scissor! The skill in "pattern making" gives you the advantage and the customer security in knowing the skill level of repair work will be high, very high. Oh no...Mr. Insurance man just walked into your shop, looked at that fender and said his company would only spend 2.5 hours to fix that fender--of course at a labor rate far below yours! You reach for your least favorite hammer and force him to leave your shop, never to return! Bet me in your very early history such an event did not occur...it's that natural path of being a true artist-craftsman. Imagine using a laser system, running a cad program, making that pattern...not the same kind of fun for sure.
"The tools won't get anything done or they'll make it wrong. It's your measuring and your techniques of the process that you use that makes the accuracy." -Wray Schelin
It continues to astound me the quantity of quality videos from experts in their field. However, you not only clearly know what you're doing, you're also good as explaining it, and showing the entire mental process in a clearly laid out manner. Thank you so much for sharing your skill with us!
Seeing your attention to detail and what a true craftsmen you are, I would not want you to see the 62 C10 Project truck I'm working on. But I will apply some of your techniques (along with Fitzee's) as needed to get my project back on the road!!!
Oh yeah. Waiting with great anticipation for part two. When I was a kid messing around with old Fords, fenders were not nearly as scarce as they are now. A cracked fender with a broken bead was the "kiss of death." We did not try to repair the bead .Anxiously waiting for this!
I've learned so much from this channel, that this summer I'm going to spend my weekends redoing everything I did incorrectly on my fenders last summer :)
You are not alone. Half way through and now i learned so much i just wasted my time the previous work i did 😆 Love the work you do Wray. This channel is amazing.
Easily one of your best videos ,, but after watching lots of Wrays videos the whole process is just so simple and so logical , looking forwards to seeing more .
at first I thought he was saying flexible shape hat which is the same thing actually. you got to love Wray Schelin not many left who can English wheel and work on a fender like him
26:41 I thought you realized your mistake of forgetting to draw the index mark for the 3rd gauge. Not that it matters as much with that body line running around the wheel lip to index off of. I've now learned that flexible shape patterns can easily be added onto and extended. I guess that makes it a good mistake.
Great video Ray. I install flooring and when making patterns for vinyl flooring, you can't have too many lineup marks and notes on your pattern. I love your emphasis on measuring different points for comparison..... you're playing Columbo to find out what happened to cause the damage. Have you tried the Milwaukee sharpies. I love em. Nice sharp point. Looking again in the background, I see what looks to be Milwaukee, but I've only seen them with black caps.
So much more learned and that flexible shape pattern along with that wheel arch gage prove the value! What gage steel did you use on the wheel arch gage? 18 or 20 gage?
That's just too much high tech for me. I'm building a 1930 Ford coupe on a budget. There is absolutely no way I could afford this, but thanks, it looks great!!
@@proshaper Seems like another tool and technique video. Show the various tools and their various results. Not saying yours are bad; just that I was also tempted by a radius gauge until I realized how large some of the pins were.
The amount of fiddling around just to ensure the correct alignment, no wonder they either replace part's or throw it away, there are lots of vehicles here in Australia that get ritten off, QUASHKA had the front bumper torn off, and it was totalled, structural ritt off, all the best to yous and your loved ones
Yes it was, when the customer dropped off the fenders he had tape everywhere with colorful language describing what's wrong with it. I completely forgot it was there, good eye!
Really have enjoyed this so far. I look forward to the next video. One question; what is the board made of, that you used your little hand punch on for the little holes? Thanks. To
I noted from other videos that you are concerned about the plaster of Paris getting burnished into the surface. Have you tried other powders, like corn starch, or maybe even a light dusting of silicone spray?
If the front got bumped and created a bulge, and then someone beat the bulge to straighten the edge, wouldn’t that shrink the metal in the bulged area? That could help explain the difference in radius, no?
@@proshaper I seem to have a better ability with the mechanical side of things, although there's a garage full of cars here in various non-running states that would disagree with that statement. I may have to reconsider my entire life. I'm literally three miles from your shop, but with the difference in skill levels I may as well be on another planet !
I don't believe he "makes cars" he cuts/pastes/bondos. It is a totally different thing. People perceive he produces custom cars. They are nothing you would drive on a regular basis. They are really car like sculptures.
