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Overlay Panels for a Car Project #9: Installing Strips
Steve Rasmussen
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....
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Overlay Panels for a Car Project #8: Car Modifications Revealed
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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 ...
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Overlay Panels for a Car Project #7: Plan and Prepare the Strips
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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...
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Overlay Panels for a Car Project #6: Mounting the Forms
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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...
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Overlay Panels for a Car Project #5: Building the Strong Back
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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...
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Overlay Panels for a Car Project #4: Cutting the Forms
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I use a more error proof method to tile the forms in the CNC. There are 2 reference holes in a temporary spoil board. Two matching holes are cut in...
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Overlay Panels for a Car Project #3: Finalizing the Shapes
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Lazyman suggested I should verify my form shapes by checking an inverse of the forms against the car profile. This gave me a chance to try out th...
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Overlay Panels for a Car Project #2: Massaging the Numbers
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With measurements in hand I now can enter them into a spreadsheet. Then I can create curves that run vertically on the doors. [image.png] And ...
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Overlay Panels for a Car Project #1: Measuring the shape
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This is a project that started to take shape sometime in the mid 2010s. I’m going to hold back some of the details and let the story unfold on it...
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Cabinet for Tea Bag Holders #11: Finishing touches
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Since this cabinet is so small I ended up buying some artists brushes for oil paints. [image.png] They really helped with the application of the...
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Cabinet for Tea Bag Holders #10: Inserts for doors
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There are a lot of little pieces in this entry! I started with the half circles - largest one first. Since this spalted maple can be fragile I p...
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Cabinet for Tea Bag Holders #9: The Base - The part with a Hundred Cuts (Well not that many)
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This is probably the most involved piece in the project (yes, even more than the doors). If you refer back to the first part in this blog you will ...
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