Model A Ford Trunks, WWIRZ Suggestion

[Ed in Maine]

Join Date: May 2010
Posts: 710


Re: Model A Ford Trunks (Suggestion from WWIRZ)
A few weeks ago I mentioned that I was making a trunk for my Victoria and was having trouble with the curved portion of the top. There was a suggestion from WWIRZ to cut strips to form the curve. This suggestion "hits the nail on the head!" The suggestion was to cut the strips with a 12 degree chamfer. The next day I set up my radial arm saw for the twelve degrees and cut (8) strips with the top of the strip at 9/16 in. and the bottom at 7/16 in. In the setup this is what I ended up with after setting up the saw and I decided to stay with this setting. I think the strips may have fitted a bit tighter with a 10 degree chamfer for the curve that I had but the glue filled any gaps. It was an excellent suggestion and the trunk is moving toward assembly. I think my total cost is going to be about $130.00. The trunks I have seen advertised go for about $450.00 and higher. Thanks again Ford Barn for such a good suggestion. Ed

[Blue-Truck-Nut]

This sounds like a really interesting project!
May I ask if you have pictures posted somewhere on here?

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[PalAl]

Ed, your a Senior Member...... you know that pictures are 3/4 of the "Barn" fun and instructions are the other 1/4. We are all waiting to see pictures of this project............. were waiting................ are ya taking pictures???

Lots of interest...................

[wwirz]

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I can post my pictures of the my trunk along with additional suggestions. Please let me know how to do this