I have watched so many body work videos from amateur to pro. Out of all those videos the editing, quality, and time perspectives this channel provides is by far the best. Thank you and good work for this video. It clarifies so much misunderstanding out of the process👍
Just love to watch a professional in action, your work is just on another level .Awesome work and craftsmanship.I could have appreciated a teacher like you in my life.Great work Trev.
Though I think, that you have told some of this before, I learned something new - again. Don’t worry about making you videos (too) long. All the best to you Trev.
Super, wow it takes a bit of patience. Thanks Trev, that took a bit of the mystery out of it, not underestimating it but at least it’s clear now how to do it.
Thanks for the new video Trev! I loved every minute of it.. I am excited for the next one as I think I know what is coming next! ☺ Great work and thanks for the tips! Cheers!
Nice work as usual. There are very few real metal bumpers left and I appreciate you keeping it going as it is almost a lost art over here in the US though it does seem like it's much more common in the UK. Us mere mortals are doing the get it close skim with filler and use a 2k sandable primer. The modern methods work but the art of getting the metal where you want it will always be impressive.
I think the worst part is I know a guy that will make a dustpan becasue he saw the one Ron Covell make. Will then turn around and order a fender because making a patch would take to much time and effort. It took longer to get the new fender to fit right then it did for me to make a patch and sand the original. The best part is I learned how from watching Trev.
Another excellent video as always Trev! I am in the process of refining my skills on finishing like this and I had a few light bulb moments on some things I was struggling with, particularly the slapping file. thank you!
Makes me wonder how many body guys have (and use) your mad metalworking skills when doing this kind of work vs. just hammering everything below the surface and pulling out the body filler...
Extremely useful tips and techniques .....Lost track of the blog now found it again, with Nekkid Watchmaker you'rs is one I always look for new episodes of. Are you in the South West somewhere ie Bristol area ??
So your file or sandpaper doesn't plug up I use a little liquid dish soap and water. In the 50' how did they make those bombs on the front bumpers? I need to make me a set for my dune buggy.
Hi Trev, Could you elaborate on raising the low spots? When the lows have light file marks I assume you stop filing? At this stage the panel will have a mottled effect i.e. lightly filed lows alongside bright high areas. It seems to me that the panel is now not quite level and the high spots will need to be slightly shrunk. Also, surely the presence of adjacent highs will raise the body file and prevent it from scratching the raised lows. Would it be better to shrink the highs first? Thanks Mike
@Mfw Whelan, I think you'd need to go all over panel leveling high and low spots as much as practical, then if any obvious bulging high spots remain you can consider heat shrinking them down. If you start unnecessarily shrinking spots all over panel you'll run into problems. Well that's my thinking anyway 👍
I think you’re perhaps overthinking the process. My general rule is to always finish raising my low spots before doing any shrinking. If you start doing both you’ll end up in a pickle. If you try the process out you’ll be surprised by how effective it is a raising without creating too higher high spots. If you are creating high spots that are too high you’re either striking too hard or using too higher crown dolly.
So you will rise lows most of and have some a bit higher spots ... but then you will use sand papers and so on to finish the metal ans Trevs does and this way you will get just minimal non eye seeable distorsions... this is my way of thinking. You cant stop just at this point where you take up some lows and do not finish it properly... even if you would use some putty it would be minimal... and probably you can fill it up with high bildup promer
I may be able to in the future, that isn’t actually my machine running in the video, it’s just to promote the company. I can find out who done it if you want? Cheers Trev 👍
I used some once and it made a big mess! I’m looking for something that dries 💯 and doesn’t stick to everything. I sometimes use a wide marker pen 👍 cheers Trev 👍
What Chad does is brilliant regards to his random design concepts, but he’ll follow a well rehearsed methodology when it comes to welding and shaping etc. Cheers Trev 👍
