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I havent posted on here or many forums in general in a long time. I figured a lot of you guys might find this helpful with building custom frame. I got a mandrel bender for 2x4x.120 rectangle tube. This a great and affordable solution to having to miter cut and weld rails.

Since 2013 I have had the idea to build a streamliner styled after the red head. after years of trying to get some guys to join up with me and help out i decided to just do it on my own. I am dedicating weekends and evenings to this car as money permits. I got started on the chassis last...

This was a fun little project and we documented it well with pics so i figured i would share. here is the spare the customer needs a smooth cover made for. he already has the band that goes around the tread part of the tire after measuring and laying everything out i started shrinking over...

Going to go ahead and open registration for our July metal shaping 101 class. Your choice of dates July 21-22. This class is at our shop in Milford Ohio. Let me know if you want to attend Our hands on classes are designed for beginners as well as more experienced shapers. We go over the things...

I have been so slammed with work lately i havent had time to do any updates. hoping to change that soon. this thread is going to start with what i have been doing on the car the past week, since it is fresh in my mind, and i will come back and edit from the start as i go through more of the...

I am sure a lot of you guys know my friend lewy on here, he owns the larkness monster 59 studebaker gasser. We finally conviced him it was time for a Hot Rod. So he picked up a Model A vicky body and we are going to help him a long the way build a killer little hot rod. so far we got the ASC...

Another project we started not to long ago (November 27 2016) is this AJ Watson styled Indy roadster project. It is closely based on the watson, just widened 4 " in the front, 8" in the rear and stretched 10' in the cockpit to make it a two seater for the street. we are building the full...

i have some pics of this car being built in my around the shop thread but decided to make a dedicated thread to the car. i will back post some I started another project a while back, The Wyke 32 sedan. the plan is a chopped sedan, slammed high boy. that is the basic idea, and a lot of little...

I am hosting another metal shaping class at my shop in Cincinnati Ohio, with the help of my good friend Kyle Yocum, from Yocums signature hot rods. This a great hands on class for beginners all the way up through more experienced metal shapers. We start with paper patterning basic and complex...

i have been super busy lately and not a lot of time to post much. i have really been working on a lot metal shaping type projects. so this thread will be devoted to just that. thanks for looking making a 37 ford coupe deck lid skin

here is a dedicated build thread to the 30-31 roadster pick up i am building for a good friend of mine since high school. should be done for spring. here is the frame in the jig on the table start of boxing the rails, we are using our set of boxing plates, one of our flat x members...

since i have been gone for what seems like forever, one of my new ventures is in CNC plasma cutting. i bought this set up mainly to cut all my own parts. but i also cut parts for others on the cheap. there is no design fee, set up fee, or minimum. i dont charge by the inch or the pierce. all i...

since i am always working on a ton of different things i figured it would be better to just make a basic thread to show what all is going on in the shop, and update it as things progress. instead of a ton of different threads. so here is the start and will add as things go along been super...

i have been working on the chop for a couple weeks. let me tell you this is probably one of the more difficult chops i have done. for people that dont know much about these trucks, the roof is double layered. it has the roof skin and an inner skin that is the steel head liner. so that creates a...

it is that time of year again for our annual shop open house. it will be held this year on Sunday June 1 2014. everyone is welcome to come and check out the shop, cars, and good people. the shop will provide some food on the grill and soft drinks. bring your car and come hang out for the day...

started working on this old frame the other day. i had to make a chassis jig for it. it is a crusty old frame but the owner of the chassis would not go for new rails. he wants as much of the original frame as possible here is the chassis in the jig, used a set of asc blue prints to make sure...

here is a short video i finally got around to finishing, to help promote the shop. i am sure the music will not be for everyone ,but it is pretty up beat and fit the video pretty well. enjoy and spread it around http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RV0E0Ldyyb0

this weekend is the reunion at beach bend raceway in Bowling Green, i will be there all weekend enjoying the show and pushing some race cars in the push truck. if anyone is going to be there stop and say hey of you see me out and about

my buddy lewy dropped off the lark the other day to have me do some interior metal work on the car before bowling green. here is what we are doing here is the car in the shop ready for work made a new piece to go around the pedals removable transmission tunnel side panel driver side...

so i am cleaning up around the shop and i am going to sell a bunch of stuff that has been sitting around un used for a long time, but you know me everything that is in the back ground of the pics is for sale for the right price as well (except for the coupe) lol these are plastic/ foam ARDUN...