September 6, 2023

hi it's Ray from Pro shaper Workshop in

Charlton Massachusetts and we're back

with the follow-up video and this is

Paul from Hong Kong

and uh

as we spoke about or showed in the last

video Paul had done this this one panel

here

this is his uh best panel he did he did

like three other panels they're really

good but this one was exceptional he

also did the Tipping you can see the

Tipping where it's going to tip in on

the uh the flange there the flanges made

and and that's where it joins with the

hood but we left off with the the wire

form fuel tank that he made there was a

Norton fuel tank we've copied the design

a little bit

and Paul had did the drawings and scaled

it up and made this beautiful wire form

and uh

I suggested to him that

to get all the nuances in the design

maybe you could try putting some duct

tape on the inside and with clay model

it so if you could turn it Paul and

we'll see the other side of what you did

so

that he's running out of time so if we

didn't get any aluminum panels made on

maybe tomorrow we spent the last couple

days welding learning a little bit of

TIG welding he's done really really well

on that he did steel and a little bit of

aluminum the steel is exceptional we'll

show you some of his beads now here's

his beads

and he practiced most of the day today

and he got some really nice beads here

nice penetration

pretty consistent I mean this is for

absolute beginner at TIG welding so the

aluminum uh he's got a little more

practice in tomorrow but I'm hoping that

he could get maybe one panel started or

maybe finished on this so Paul if you

want to talk a little bit about the

process of uh putting the clay on the

tank and and learning uh how to create

that shape because we modified it a

little bit from The Wire form and the

intent is to

eventually this will be a flexible shape

pattern and we'll be able to turn the

flexible shape patterns inside out to

make a symmetrical other side but you

added a lot of nice detail in it so if

you want to speak about that a little

bit that would be great yeah

creating the wireframe originally was a

great creative process in itself there's

a lot of flexibility with changing a

little bit of the design as we went

along and as we kind of step up to the

clay right now we also have a lot of

freedom with how we want to Define

certain edges for example

um right here we have a very kind of

sharp edge that kind of draws the eye in

a little bit more whereas we were also

toying with different ideas such as kind

of making certain things a little bit

more subtle so the clay is very

versatile it's a lot of fun we had a

soft radius on that at first and that

didn't look bad but you actually

innovated the the hotter Edge stuff

there and it that really made it pop I

think yeah absolutely and what's

exciting about the the whole clay

component of it is we'll be able to do

the flexible shape pattern off of this

and then full circle will be able to

create uh sheet metal from that so it's

really cool to learn the entire process

and with a few things like the welding

paired in there

great start in terms of having the

fundamentals to get started with metal

tracing yeah as we mentioned before Paul

lives in Hong Kong but he's going to be

applying for UK

residents really soon probably in the

next two or three months and in the UK

it's uh it's automotive and bike Heaven

pretty much there too so you'll probably

have some space spaces that's such a

premium in Hong Kong that it'll be able

to pursue what he's learned here at the

class absolutely and you've learned how

to start a panel off from a flat sheet

to putting the area value in and how to

arrange it and and then how to throw

flanges and and all the shrinking and

stretching that you had to do and

everything and and now you've learned

how to model up a motorcycle tank and

how to put the clay on there and then

TIG welding so you've got the uh the

whole spectrum of possibility here again

is probably a lot more I could teach you

but I think you've done really well and

you've got a good wide assortment of

skills that you've been

exposed to and and now you'll be able to

use them if when you move to the UK so

just

say something about you know what your

hopes are for the future in the UK what

you potentially could do yeah absolutely

you're mostly a motorcycle guy right uh

saying practically with the space

motorcycles

yeah but what this course has really

enabled me to do is have a lot of

confidence using tools that I never

really have before and teaching me all

the fundamental steps that I need to be

you know creating something essentially

from scratch and that's really exciting

what I want to kind of go in terms of

the direction in the future hard to say

because there's so many different

possibilities and options here so I'm

really excited I just want to keep

committed to this and see what I come up

with okay and hopefully tomorrow we've

got you've got a good 10 hour day

tomorrow uh Friday you're on the road

and you're heading towards New York City

and you're going to be flying out in a

couple days uh the long you took the

long route back to Hong Kong you said it

was like 35 hour flight you know so uh

you've got a big endurance test ahead of

you but I just want to say I'm so happy

that you came you've been an excellent

student it's been fun to to be with and

maybe if you can get some aluminum we

get the flexible shape pattern made on

that side of that tank tomorrow and

maybe make that that panel we can make

once more small video for this series

but I just want to thank you and I'm

sure all the uh the viewers I really

appreciate the nice job you did so

thanks for coming thank you

and that's it for today from Pro shaper

Workshop in Charlton Massachusetts

thanks for watching