This week I got carried away making an aluminum car body for the jaguar d type there is still a lot to do before these panels can be called a car but it is going better than I had expected.
To do that here in the UK adds 25K+++ GBP to the cost of the project if not more. Garages here charge a premium for that. I hope (besides for the love of it) your client is remunerating you accordingly. Well done Danie! Exceptional work
Thank you very much! The client is paying well but mostly I'm glad to have been given the opportunity to build it on the basis that he believed I could do it without me having a proper portfolio. The next one I'm going to charge much more 😁😁
Danie, a suggestion. Your English wheel looks as if it is fabricated out of tubular steel. Steel has tremendous springiness, which means that you have problems to get wrinkles out of your sheetwork as it will flex as you wheel. My suggestion is to temporarily brace the top and bottom of the wheel close to your work piece, effectively shortening the throat. A simple flat bar with bolts should do. This should remove the springiness if you catch my drift. When you need to wheel a wide workpiece, just remove the brace.
This is amazing Danie! I am also dreaming of building my own car in this manner. So glad you decided to not use the fiberglass body. Very clever idea to use it as a pattern. This means you can build more than one☝🏼 How much would you charge a client more or less to build a second body? ( Body only)
Thank you Christoff! Yes the mold is going to come in handy one day to make another body. I haven't given it much thought (yet) as to how much I will charge for another body. But as you can imagine it is very labor intensive and te is money 😁
bro can you said the *grossor* of the alunium lamine, i want start buy a car with my own designe and i have the wood model, i need know the thickness of the aluminium leaf you use
Danie, another suggestion: are you annealing the aluminium to make it softer and more malleable? Here is a link if you have an interest. I suggest that the Jags curves require something extra and should make your job easier. makeitfrommetal.com/how-to-anneal-aluminum-the-beginners-guide/
Thanks for the info. Very informative. I have in the past annealed aluminium but have not found it necessary with this project so far as I'm making smaller panels at a time than I used to.
