Very nice Bob, VERY nice.......

Originally Posted by gapple12

Very nice Bob, VERY nice.......

Thanks Drew,

Bob

Never cease to impress with your skills, Bob. Looking awesome!!

Originally Posted by sensei

Thanks buddy,

That is going to be the master, the glass will go on in the pieces per layer and there will be three layers laminated with epoxy resin, then bondo work, high build prime work, and lots of block sanding. After that, it gets wax, PVA, face coat, and a twelve ply female tool will be made with high temp epoxy resin, and tooling cloth for the purpose of production cowlings.

Bob

Bob,
Amazing work. Your speed and quality is incredible. Hats off to you my man!

Looks fantastic Bob!

Bob spent about an hour on the phone with me last night explaining the process he uses to creat this type of tooling. Bob, you are an amazing asset to the R/C Community for sharing your knowledge the way you do

BTW guys - We'll have the first set of laser cut parts later this week! I'll be checking them over for fit and finish then sending them down to Bob for his blessing.

Damn Bob...you should start doing ugly chick makeovers....you could make a mint! LOL

Thanks for all the kind words guys...

I managed to get the lay-ups completed on the master today, and will start mudding it up and sanding tomorrow evening.

Bob

Originally Posted by Craven

Damn Bob...you should start doing ugly chick makeovers....you could make a mint! LOL

LOL

Bob

I see the groove around the plug about where the parting line would be if you were doing a two part cowl. Is this to allow the glass to overlap without leaving a bump?

Originally Posted by dmcquinn

I see the groove around the plug about where the parting line would be if you were doing a two part cowl. Is this to allow the glass to overlap without leaving a bump?

Yes it is, it is much easier to fill a groove with bondo then bring the entire side up level with the overlaps, if you notice the area around the cowl ring, I also took that area down about 1/8" so I could use bondo on the edges to conform back to the fuse.

Bob

looking great bob!

Originally Posted by smokin

looking great bob!

Thanks Matt, You think you will have room in your suitcase to take the tooling back with you in December?

Bob

yeah, we'll get that worked out for sure!

Did you do the entire cowl shaping free-hand or maybe use some templates along the way or something?

Regardless - just amazing work - AWESOME!!

Originally Posted by ottrod

Did you do the entire cowl shaping free-hand or maybe use some templates along the way or something?

Regardless - just amazing work - AWESOME!!

I do all my cowlings free-hand, more fun that way...

Bob