I want to say BIG THANK YOU to Barry for organising the Metal Meet on my request. Well, not realy a request.... more like " 'n Skimp"
I mentioned to Barry that I will be coming to SA during end Sept., beginning Oct. And he made the effort to clean his workshop, move tools around AND get people to pitch up. Thank you again.
It is a shame that I am not so good with "names on the first day", especially when one gets stuck in the whole day moering metal into a shape that it does not realy want to. So you spend so much time with your own thoughts and "hardegat staal", that you dont get to talk THAT much with the other people. I appologise.
All in all, I think it was a GREAT day. I managed to beat metal into something I wanted. Well, not 100%, but I was getting there. At a point I got 'frustrated' and tried to STARE the metal into shape. That didnt work too well. Barry noticed there was much less hammering and came over to 'have a word'. Long story short, I tried to bend a complete fender (three 'directions') out of a flat sheet!! Barry advised me that I am asking too much from one piece of flat steel. He told me to think about my projects better. He would'e done it in 3 pieces..... I then 'gave up the fight' and thought of another challenge!! How about rolling the lip over? Barry then showed me how to roll wire in the lip. Cool trick!!
At about 4 or so, I stood with a "as far as you can go" piece, and thought "What now?" This is when I joined the 'hubcap - crew' and smaked a bowl out of an off-cut.... Needless to say that I understood a bit better how these things work, and knocked it out in not such a long time! Then our 'token coloured man' accused me of stealing his idea!
Us two for some reason were on the same wave lenght, until he cracked his Friday-Saturday-Sunday joke
All in all, thanks again Barry for such an awesome day!!! Oh, and just for the record...... Sorry once again about the fibreglass mini-roadster comment!!!!
. met some great folk with awesome talent. if there was no pressing commitments today i would defnately come thru today aswell.
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Nothing but metal in this shop!!! The detail and quality of work on this little 'car' is incredible. If I was only to judge his skills by this pedal car.... he will have my HotRods to work on!!!
Haha. cool mate, glad you enjoyed.