Hi!
Please tell me that this is a difficult panel to replicate, or else I'm going to shoot myself... Ok, seriously; I'm having a very hard time replicating this part of a firewall:
It'shard to see on the picture, the third line from top makes a bow inwards (away from the camera).
This double curved part is doing my head in... I lost count of how many panels I wasted without getting the shape of BOTH curvatures right. I can always get one right, but not the two together...
I cut the panel to allow the panel to overlap (squeeze) or stretch. That's no the issue...
I use a bowl filled with sand and a leather rag on top for free forming with a rounded hammer. Plus aflat hammer and various round or square smal amboses. That's all the tool I have for the job (+ metal shears and welder of course).
It's realy doing my head in... So far I've started with the third line (from top) with a smal ambos. And then tried to work the second line with a rounded hammer in the sand bowl. Andthen tried to put the curve, where both lines join, into the panel - and that's where it always distorts and ends in disaster...
I have hardly any experience with panel making... Does this require a lot of skill or am I just not gifted enough for that job? Maybe I should pay a professional panel beater to make that panel for me?
Help! I'm in deepest despair... The form has to be exactely right, as there's another panel joining the third line (where the (drilled) holes are). This next picture is a view from the top, with said panel still attached, Makes the curve a bit more visible:
Regards,
Jan
Please tell me that this is a difficult panel to replicate, or else I'm going to shoot myself... Ok, seriously; I'm having a very hard time replicating this part of a firewall:
It'shard to see on the picture, the third line from top makes a bow inwards (away from the camera).
This double curved part is doing my head in... I lost count of how many panels I wasted without getting the shape of BOTH curvatures right. I can always get one right, but not the two together...
I cut the panel to allow the panel to overlap (squeeze) or stretch. That's no the issue...
I use a bowl filled with sand and a leather rag on top for free forming with a rounded hammer. Plus aflat hammer and various round or square smal amboses. That's all the tool I have for the job (+ metal shears and welder of course).
It's realy doing my head in... So far I've started with the third line (from top) with a smal ambos. And then tried to work the second line with a rounded hammer in the sand bowl. Andthen tried to put the curve, where both lines join, into the panel - and that's where it always distorts and ends in disaster...
I have hardly any experience with panel making... Does this require a lot of skill or am I just not gifted enough for that job? Maybe I should pay a professional panel beater to make that panel for me?
Help! I'm in deepest despair... The form has to be exactely right, as there's another panel joining the third line (where the (drilled) holes are). This next picture is a view from the top, with said panel still attached, Makes the curve a bit more visible:
Regards,
Jan