Projects 1956 Chevy Carryall new wood body

I'd suggest 1/8 scale models for the s****s, but it looks like you have plenty on your plate as it is.

 

Sounds like the beginning of a yoyo factory. A few dowels. some glue, and your lathe.

Beautiful work by the way!

 

I'm scrounging around looking for wood to feed the wood stove, need to start with a larger supply for next season.

 

Great project. With limited wood working tools I've wanted to build a 34 Ford Woody using the laminated strip method -
You could even swap in a strip of walnut to create a pinstripe.

 

If I should happen to be the one to take this beauty back to its owner or bring you down something else, remind me & I will put a bunch of your s****s in the back of my truck! I have wood burners in both the house & the shop. Even though I normally have some cut & stacked from the woods, S**** dried wood burns hot & makes great stuff to start the fire with.

I very much love checking back into this thread to see the progress...Simply Beautiful Work!

God Bless
Bill
https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum...ar-transport-hauling-open-or-enclosed.614419/

 

Its so very cool and truly fascinating to watch such pieces come to life via the hands of a true craftsman!
To you all, I highly recommend the videos of Jim Engels, this man does it all, in a variety of mediums.

Enjoy, I ***ure you, none of this is boring, and very educational.
https://engelscoachshop.com/

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If you were closer I'd take all the s**** hardwood you had! My granddaughter is an amazing talented crafts person and is always looking for hardwood s****s for her projects!
These are a couple of her latest projects. A hand rasped wooden decorative bowling ball, and a knick knack box:





She's built a few small wood pieces I needed for cars also. Plus she welds and fabricates too! All at 18 yrs. old and 100 lbs. soaking wet.

 

Henry Ford and his wife's cousin E.G. Kingsford started a charcoal company with the Model T waste.
https://www.kingsford.com/our-story/kingsford-history/

 

I wouldn't be a bit surprised if you haul it back home, and whatever s**** is laying around at the time you are certainly welcome to!

 

Well...there's the truck, and the boat I'm just finishing up, there's a thread somewhere on that, and this little project that has been on the back burner for too long.....and....yeah..

 

A 34 wood body is mostly straight lines and square corners, not much laminating to do unless you're thinking about something custom, only limited there by your imagination.

 

Pretty impressive for an 18 year old kid, looks like she's got some natural talent too. Definately ought to be encouraged!

 

that would be impressive at 38!!--let alone the 18

 

Excellent craftsmanship
I’m signed up
Dan

 

Wow! What a project.

 

She's on a full ride art scholarship at Central Washington University. Just about done with her freshman year.

 

I sure enjoy seeing the pictures of your progress.

 

I decided to finish off the roof. Made some brackets to tie the roof to the pillars and made and installed the slats.

 

WOW to all of this beautiful work.

 

Great craftsmanship!

 

Not only are your woodworking skills over the top, but your steel fabrication of the brackets is also great! Can't wait to see it finished!

 

WOW!

 

& people go to garden store to buy mulch - a new business for you. I grind & mulch everything to garden.

 

The roof is done, got it tied into the sides and the slats installed. Then on to the front doors. There was originally a piece of steel trim along the front edge of the door that is missing and rather than try to reproduce it I decided to fill the space with wood. I've done other cars with the same kind of trim and I don't care for the look of it anyway. The front doors will be the most challenging part of the body to build, and the condition of the original doors is such that what I can get from them is general layout and rough dimensions. These door parts are hand made and fit.

 

Beautiful craftsmanship. It will be a rolling piece of art
Wishing your Granddaughter all the best and that She continues to develop her artistic talents

 

I always considered woodwork as more or less black magic and this confirms it. I wouldn't even try to understand the concepts involved, my few brain cells will evaporate.

Amazing.

 

Thanks! I'm sure 1971BB427 will appreciate the well wishes for his grand daughter!

 

Again, WOW! I lack adequate adjectives...

 

The door frame is in one piece. Everything is slightly oversized and rough right now but it opens and closes. Getting the wing window in and lined up will be somewhat fussy as it also is the front track for the roll up window. I have the original window regulator but no idea how it was mounted, and am also lacking all of the interior trim. The regulator just has to work, and the trim will be something similart to what I did on the quarter panels. Lacking a full set of original latching hardware I decided to adapt a new latch to the frame. The latch works now, but I still have to devise linkages to connect it to the original outside handle and to an inside handle.

 

-yeah-looks real 'rough' from here-