Steve Rasmussen

 The car is at the shop being converted. I delivered it the first week of January. It sat for a week or so while Michael finished up an Audi conver...

 Now I have two projects going at the same time. Once the first panel is off the forms I can reverse each form to create a mirror image for the dri...

 With the trim attached I can now remove the panel from the forms. [image.png] It only takes a bit of gentle prying and the hot melt glue breaks f...

 I’m using quarter sawn ash for the trim on the panel. I cut enough material for the entire project (if all goes to plan). The border trim is 1.25”...

This blog took a backseat for a few weeks while I worked on Christmas gifts for the grandkids. The work covered here was wrapped up in October so I...

The ash trim needs to wrap around the entire panel. I’ve got the top and bottom done and now I need to add trim at the front and back ends. I’ll st...

 There has been an aspect of the panel layout that has been bugging me. Now seems as good of a time as any to see if there is anything I can do abo...

 The first strip to install is the center ash trim. A dab of hot melt glue is put onto the green tape between the pencil marks for the center trim....

Most of this part is taken from one of the later comments in the previous part. I have been holding back the details on how the car is going to be ...

 With the forms in place and templates for the fender curves, door handle and side light I can verify the basic layout of the strip fields. The fie...

I drew location lines on the strong back for each form. After cutting a set of mounting cleats I start to mount the forms. [image.png]   The first...

The strong back is built with a top and bottom layer of OSB and a frame between them. This yields a very stiff structure that will maintain flatnes...