I like cars with Curves

I know you are all thinking that it looks like a box with four tires. There cannot possibly be any curves on my Station Wagon. But indeed there are many curves. One of the most elaborate ones actually there is three of them that go over the fender. Lucky for us my Grandfather had us build a Traveler several years ago which allowed us to buy a bit to do the finger joints.

To help save the blade for another project we cut it out with a table saw and then finished it with the shaper. The bit is actually pretty big. I wish I had a picture to show you but it took some time to get it set up for each of the joints. So after all of that came the gluing. My engineer of a Father of course came up with a great way to glue it together.

It had to be glued together in pieces because there is three sections to at least the one that is pictured. Other parts had less sections. After it was glued together we had to cut it to fit the curve around the fender. My Father used a big piece of plywood to make sure he got the curve right for the fender and then transferred that to these pieces.

So the top picture is the round for the door side of the fender. The smaller of the two in this picture is attached to the fender and the larger to the door. The second picture is the back side of the fender. All except for the smallest of them get a groove cut out for the panel to sit in and the larger one will eventually get a v groove so that it matches the space in between the back door and the fender. This is what it looks like with the big one in the quarter panel.

Needles to say these curves have a lot to them even though they look very simple in the pictures. There will probably be a couple more posts about these curves, but enjoy what you got now.