[sammons]

There will be days like that, unfortunatly i have too mamy of these days lately😁  As the saying goes.... shi#! happens.

Honestly, i've ran on to that on a model A front fender. The guy jad picked up one NOS fender and a good used fender. The "swoop" was different, not much. Dad was laughing at me as i was fighting it trying to get it closer. He said hell son, you can"t see both sides at once🤪   That wasn't what i wanted to here. Difference, between stamping mills or maybe one was just tweeked from being old??

Keep at it, you'll get there.

[Essex_29]

Thank you sammons.
Tonight I welded what little was left to weld on the new fender edge.
Some grinding later, the weld bead was gone and I cut down the
oversize sheetmetal to get a view of the result.
Now it looks right, in other words, like I meant it to look, and
About the same as the other side.
I guess you might not even se the difference, but it looks ?bulkier?
as at least ten inches is more than 7/16ths wider than before.

[Essex_29]

Yup-yup, going slowly forward again, the new fender edge tacked to the fender.
The swoop and the "depth" of the side looks much better than the previous version.

[sammons]

Lol, forward is good!  Looks like you got it on the run, now just the fun of welding her up. Looking great man! 👍

[TFoch]

Nice finish on the metal work.  Keep it up!

[Essex_29]

Thank you sammons and TFoch.

Have patience with me, this is a blow-by-blow thing right
now, but I'm getting so frustrated with this endless work
on the fenders, I just HAVE to describe the smallest progress.

I got the inner fender edge done and tacked, after a bit of
 rolling in the eglish wheel.
Then I continued with the joint between the apron and the fender.
Also the hump for when the wheel is turned and the edge around
the exhaust primaries.
I surprise myself with how difficult this is, since I already did it once.
I make a point of working on this every day to get it over with.
Yes, I'm a bit fed up.

I took the fender off the car tonight and started cutting and hammering.
Now it begun to be fun, so I quit so it will be fun and inspiring to go to
the garage and continue tomorrow.

[sammons]

Essex its hard not to get burnt out on a big project like yours. Weird how sometimes the first side is reasonably easy, and the second a bear, nothing seems to go as smooth as the other side did. Sometimes fab work goes backwards🫤

Keep at it!

[Essex_29]

Thank you sammons  for the compassionate words.
It feels much better now that I have everything tacked.

Next night in the garage I have about 10 ft of tig weld to make
along all the tacked seams. I was right too, this was really fun,
To get it all cut, hammered and tacked.
Welding is always fun, looking forward to it.

[sammons]

Essex, i'm glad your enjoyment returned.  I love watching sheetmetal go from Frankinstein's monster to Sleeping Beauty  🙂

[Essex_29]

Thanks, sammons
It was fun once the parts were tacked together.
 I didn't expect it to take this long to make the
second one, it's been exactly a month since I
started on this fender.
Now it's done anyway.