Dave Dole's Journal

June 12th and have been working on my CK. Realizing that almost everyone else starts with the frame and running gear, I snagged enough steel for my initial frame, before turning to making the body. Mainly because I had almost everything left-over from previous projects to get a major jump on the build while awaiting the next payday to creep up so can begin ordering some of the parts and pieces. Being handier with wood than metal, I began converting my sketches to plywood frames. After numerous modifications and adjustments I removed the metal and touched up some problem areas. With the body skin being wood strips of clear pine, I have to mask off the frames that will not be part of the finished body shell. The wood grain clearly shows through the clear fiberglass---a month or so down the road....lol. Hence the name for my CK. Will post pictures later after adding some wood strips.