Sheet metal wood buck thread.

Can you guys share your wood bucks to form metal?
Im looking for some ideas.
We have a super awesome thread about sheet metal forming but I dont want to dig through the fancier machined form posts.
So please post them,Anything:Beads,flanges,curves,etc.
Please thanks.
It would be awesome if you share a picture of the outcome.

 

Here's a steel hammer form I made. It was my first attempt using a form.

 

Here's a link to a hammerform I made for a side steer blister. Stu

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=763640

 

This is one i used to make a window opening in a door.

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=732731

 

great ideal for a thread

 

Anyone catch the first part of Ron Covell's model t project in street rodder. I was blown away. I haven't seen the next installment did anyone catch it and know what mag I need?

 

Here's some hammer forms I made for my coupe.
Drip rail



Door bottom


Flanged afterward on the bead roller


Nothing real fancy but it worked.

 

55 Chevy tailgate repair using MDF hammerform....


http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=550803

 

Part 2 is in April 2013 issue of Street Rodder, Volume 42. No 4. Pages 92, 94, 96, 98, 100.

Ed

 

Great thread idea.

 

Jimmy B made some backyard wooden bucks for a 25 chev roadster - will try and find the thread.

 

Here is one I made for recreating the roof trim on my Lincoln. They aren't finished ,but will get chromed . Jack

 

>>>Anyone catch the first part of Ron Covell's model t project in street rodder. I was blown away.>>>

I saw the second installment (this month's/most recent Street Rodder) but I missed the original first installment. Is it online anywhere? The magazine is gone from the stores with the next issue being out....

Al in TN

 

Scratch that, I think I found the first installment:

http://www.streetrodderweb.com/tech/1201sr_scratch_building_a_roadster_body/viewall.html

Al in TN

 

Excellent idea!

 

I will have to see if I can get some pictures of my latest. I am making a duplicate of my 32 Aussie Tub, and have made bucks for the inner door metal.

 

Im not sure what the advantage is of having a solid buck like Ron's 27. I prefer to have access to the back side of my panels as I make and fit them .

Anybody care to discuss ?

 

I am with you on that! I also like to have access to both sides when possible. It makes it hard to clamp your panels in place and its hard to get a feeler gauge in to see how close your shape is. When I used to do prototype gas tanks for American Ironhorse, they used to give me these beautiful CNC wooden bucks, but they were so hard to work with because of no access!

 

A picture of a bead rolled panel clamped in my particle board hammer form buck to hammer the radius on the edge and the wheel well and the wheel well in place in my Henry J.

Blue

 

I made metal hammer forms to make doors and door holes in hood side panels. Pictured is a test panel. Figured metal forms would hold up good for making 10 doors and holes.

 

I dig those ive been thinking aboot putting 32 chev style hood doors on the next A

 

Nothing to fancy here either but making a radius with a lip to weld a wheel tub to.

 

I have started a Model A speedster project different from a normal looking style. The one I am making is a front to rear seat layout, rather than a typical side to side style. I made the preliminary drawing using SolidWorks 3D software. I am not that good at SolidWorks, but I have learned to do what I need, and the following wooden bucks were also drawn using SolidWorks. Then they were cut out using a .dxf file on a water jet machine. That maked them go together EXTREMELY fast and EXTREMELY accurate. This is a new kind of project for me, but I am very happy with the approach that I am taking, because it has turned out to be both quick and cost effective, if you can generate the drawing itself first.

Here are pictures of the original body layout. I will follow with posts for each of the bucks that I have built so far.

 

Here is the buck for the rear gas tank. Made from .100" thick 3003 aluminum. The interior baffles were done from .dxf files and a water jet as well.

 

This is the buck that I made for the rear upper panel over the gas tank at the rear of the speedster. The 'colored' picture is a SolidWorks assembly drawing of the individual drawings made on the water jet machine.

 

Here are some pics of the nose piece for the speedster.

 

This is the last post for the set of bucks for the speedster. I work on this in my spare time, so it goes slow at times. These pictures are for the cowl area at the steering wheel.

 

Here's my steering column floor seal