My grandfather when he was living he told me how to do body work and do the lead work on the cars back in the day and I got pretty good at doing lead work and body work on it and I miss him today and watching you work gives me goosebumps just watching it all over again
Damn Fitzee, you're one hell of a fabricator!! I always learn so much from you, I owe you for an education in metal working! Thanks for sharing your wealth of knowledge with us mere mortals! 👍👍👍
Wow Fitzee, another huge project success from your garage laboratory. Peanut says you need to sweep and vacuum the shop again. Thanks for sharing and caring about how you do your work in an efficient way.
This is the most impressive series I've seen. I watched this on a phone and headphones. Had to be told to close my mouth a couple times. Absolutely mind blowing the hood didn't get friendly and wave.
Wow that is amazing looks beautiful thank you so much for the videos all of them I never thought about when you laugh the two panels over like you're talking about the water setting up in there in between the two pieces of metal and cause any problem thank you so much for all the tips and all the education you are giving
Easyest way to explain heat. Any type of friction you apply to metal causes heat. Some more then others. You can hand sand and create heat. This guy is 100 percent right. Always control your heat. That in basically the most important thing is doing this type of work.
If you attached a strip of metal to the scrap metal pieces before covering them all the way up in the back of the hood where you can't reach you can grab the strip of metal and pull it out and the scrap will be attached to it. Great videos!
Did my first cut-n-butt yesterday on my 1985 Landcruiser, THANK YOU for all your videos! So instructional with the tips .. only reason a guy like me can tackle an entire vehicle restoration .. thank you so much, greetings from the Left Coast (Victoria, BC)
Welders Patience!!! WAIT for the metal to cool! I tend to get into too much of hurry in welding my cut n butt joints!! Great video on simple cut n butt. Don’t rush it!
The timing of this vid is perfect. I want to do a one-off all steel custom hood for a project car and I needed to see a professional graft steel into steel (cut & butt) to see the heat control, the rough/finish grinding, and what to watch out for in a large panel. I've pieced a corner on a hood from another, a corner onto a door, but most of my work has been putting on new quarters, skinned a few doors, small roof repairs etc. Yours is becoming a lost art (much like tool & die - my trade), and I thank you for passing it along to keep it alive, these skills define a true craftsmen. Again, thank you, sincerely.
Mate that is definitely a work of art. The way you metal work is a joy to watch and having painted a LOT of cars, this is the way I like my metal finished. Top work
Quite the piece of work Tony, lots going on here to digest. I have no doubts that the hood / scoops will all look factory when it's sitting in primer, awesome job brother well done!
i loved watching you work you show that taking you time will get better finish with less body work to do at the end great job thank you for showing us the right way
It looks great Fitzee...! 👍. I really enjoy your down to earth concept on the metal work ... to where it's good enough to the body work after... You need to open another channel for your bodywork side... then you'll be smoking! Take care my friend... love your ways, and your channel !!!
Love your cut and butt technique. It makes so much sense as opposed to the fiddly work of cutting a hole and then making a filler to the exact size and shape. By keeping the underlying material in place and cutting it away gradually the job maintains better structure and has a better shot at maintaining its shape.
💥Tony, You Sir, were blessed, not only with the aptitude for working with your hands, but through your many years of experience, You, my friend, have acquired the necessary patience of a true master! GREAT JOB!!
I have enjoyed all of this project. I really enjoy how you show and explain the entire project step by step. The scoops look amazing. I watch your videos and get so motivated to head out to the shop and build some of my own. Really appreciate what you do and how you share it. Perhaps some day you could show off some of your bodywork skills and bring the whole project full circle. The sealing the seams with glass was a very helpful tip for me today. Take care Tony.
A lot of the newer cars that peel paint and lawn mowers there decks peel paint ,,they don't sand the metal before the pain too smooth ,, just like putting paint on glass it will come off ,, Another Great Job Tony ,, working on 1 of my Jeeps it's a rust bucket .. well my dad dropped of his Jeep tail gate .. bottom edge is rusted away ,, going to repair it like you did the truck doors .. I will sand blast the inside frame work looks rough inside ,, we are in Western NY ,, they put lots of salt down on the roads ..it will eat you car fast if you don't keep it washed .. thumbs up on the video ,,
Another great job Tony.A true craftsman always makes it look simple, so it's great to see you overcome the hard bits. Love it all many thanks again. Joe
I am not a body guy at all. I’d rather rebuild a motor or tranny anytime. I’ve bought rust free 2 wheel drive pickups to swap onto my 4x4. I just did some rockers and patch panels a couple months ago thanks to you! They turned out ok for my first try. I know the mistakes and any body guy will see them. Not gonna try a hood tho! Thanks for the great videos!!
One word……..WOW!!!!!!! That’s as close to perfect as you can get without actually getting there…. You sir are a very patient man… i’d have had the lot of that stomped into a corner somewhere…. but that’s just me🥺🥺🥺… great work!!!!
Reminds me the time I sanded a hood down to bare metal then it rained for two days ( What Fun ) Think it was a 70,s Monte Carlo Dark Blue , painted it Gloss Black .😀
Ok. So a cut and butt along the whole edge (near the cowl), of the charger hood is tricky like you’re dealing with on your hood because you cannot get the original out. I decided to do passenger side in one piece so I can have the driver side for a comparison for length. Still need to butt weld but may have to be more like a template
Great work! I love how you explain the process as you go. With every video of yours that I watch I seem to gain more confidence and maybe one day I'll finally finish the rest of the cab corners on the wife's 55 F100? LOL
Well done . You did a amazing job . Thank you for the Video the Tips and Tricks. Thank you for showing your skills and the process to do the job . Take care have a good week Yours Frank Galetzka
Having seen your method of using overlap to get the contour of the patch, and then cutting on an angle and converting a lap-joint to a butt-joint a few times, any other method just seems wrong. But sometimes there's a reason to do it different, and you gotta watch the heat. Thanks so much for sharing your process with us, that really helps us to develop a process of our own.
Very informative. I'm three years into body work and years before getting formal training in my mind butt welding was done this way rather than trying to cut both panels perfectly straight and applying butt weld clips etc. This gets straight to it, granted you can get to the panel below the replacement, as you clearly explained. Well done and thanks for the proof of concept! Worthy sub!
Tony, it's really relieving to see you leave some imperfect welds, crack, pinholes, etc. I wish I'd seen this a month ago. I've been flux-core welding 22g on some fenders, and just butchering it. I start off with a perfect patch, I tack okay, I try to really carefully not put any heat into it, jumping forward an inch every time and cooling before the next round, but flux-core just isn't compromising like that. If you don't have enough heat the flux doesn't boil out in time and creates pinholes as it cools. So I go back and try more heat, which then deforms the panel. Back and forth chasing pinholes and grinding until the panel is 3/16" deformed everywhere. Looks awful. But I kept thinking "Can't leave any holes, water will get in". Well, hadn't considered that it'll need a skim of filler anyways, and those holes and low spots on the edges of the weld wouldn't be a problem. I know flux-core is the wrong tool, but I wanted to push myself and see if it would be possible with enough practice and patience. Turns out, no. 20g? Yes. 22g, far as I can tell, just can't be done.
Hey, if you stick on a sacrificial piece of metal to whatever patch you're welding (so it's in the circuit) then start each patch tack by running a quick tack on the sacrificial piece first so the tip of the wire is glowing before you run your actual tack on the patch you'll have a lot less pinholes etc .. hope that makes sense! Had to learn how to use flux on panels during lockdown when I couldn't get anything else!
Fitzee...when you add a thicker gauge to a thinner gauge metal, especially on a panel that opens and closes, you open yourself up to filler lift off because thinner metal around the thicker metal will vibrate at a different rate. The effect will be like a wave hitting shore and casting up the sand. It won't be so bad for you because those louvre covers are in a stiffer area of the hood. I cut and butt weld everything, making sure I have no 90 degree corners ( round them off)...and gas welding only. The reason for gas welding is you can forge the weld and take out the shrinking /warpage issues with a hammer and dolly.Gas welding makes for a more workable weld than mig. When you forge a weld, you end up with a panel of uniform gauge, assuming you welded in metal of the same gauge to start with. Check out the Brits...they cut and make such precise joints that they don't even use a filler rod. The job you did on those louvres , we had to do in our second level of auto body school...we were each given a hood and told to cut out a 4" x 4" piece from the middle...and then make a patch and butt weld it in with gas...it had to be perfectly metal finished , no filler...we had 4 hours.
Another fantastic job sir. It's like you said people don't realize how much work goes into doing custome work like that. I know it has to just wear you out by the time you got done what you had. Some times the mental work is harder then the physical work.
This must be one of the trickiest jobs you've ever done. Looks like it was way harder than the back end of the Fleetline. Very good tips with how not to stuff up the job. You could have almost made a cup of coffee while waiting on cooling in between welds, but better to take a few hours extra to do the job and not end up with a warped panel by rushing it. I have a big project coming up some time (if I ever get to it) and I've learned so much by watching your videos that it's going to be a big help to me when I get to my project. Thanks for taking the time to show us how to do this type of work in such a way as to get the best results.
Another great teaching video. You did a great job of explaining the process. Simply amazing how you made everything fit, again you did a great job of explaining the process throughout the video. A great educational video.Thanks again, and again I am very happy that you survived that ordeal with that very bad storm.
you have the patience to do so much and do it so well. this hood looks great. and this is one of your videos that I will have to keep replaying until I understand more of the lessons. And a big thankyou for showing more of the undercut welds and other non finished imperfections that you will cover with filler. perhaps I am trying to hard to metal finish my work. which is why it is taking so long to redo everything that I do.
"You wouldn't believe the hours that go into making it all metal finish" Yes. Yes I would. It's the 80/20 rule. The last 20% would take 80% of the time.....not that there is 20% left to make that metal finish. It looks more like 5%.....that would take around 95% of the time already put into it to finish. The hood looks good, my friend. REAL good. I'm going to really enjoy seeing the rest of the project come together. You have a way with steel that is almost instinctual and I enjoy seeing it in action and your tips on what to look for and how to make it right. All the best.
All the videos you do are going to be a MASSIVE help for me in my first restoration of my 64 Galaxie in the next couple years. RESPECT!
My grandfather when he was living he told me how to do body work and do the lead work on the cars back in the day and I got pretty good at doing lead work and body work on it and I miss him today and watching you work gives me goosebumps just watching it all over again
I remember those days
Looks amazing bud! You’ll have to do a little follow up video of it once it’s all painted and on the car, I would love to see that 👍
Damn Fitzee, you're one hell of a fabricator!! I always learn so much from you, I owe you for an education in metal working! Thanks for sharing your wealth of knowledge with us mere mortals! 👍👍👍
Mr. Fitzee... most impressive sir! Your tenacity is only surpassed by your attention to detail.
nothing fancy forever!!! you are the greathest teacher ever!!! thank you for all!!!
Wow Fitzee, another huge project success from your garage laboratory.
Peanut says you need to sweep and vacuum the shop again.
Thanks for sharing and caring about how you do your work in an efficient way.
Man o man. That was tricky. U totally aced that one. Love watching u do the impossible. Truly a thing of beauty
I can already see it jet black with the chrome twists locks on it! Your the magician. Just perfect Fitzee!
Nice job Tony...That cut n butt is the cats meow!....
Very good work. I can watch this video over and over again.
Popcorn and beer, ready to watch 😁
This is the most impressive series I've seen. I watched this on a phone and headphones. Had to be told to close my mouth a couple times. Absolutely mind blowing the hood didn't get friendly and wave.
That's as close to a factory stamping your gonna get, beautiful work Tony I love it.
It must be, especially on a big job like this, a really big relief when the Shop Inspection comes in at the end and gives you the OK.
Watching your processes I think we went to the same school of trial and error and figured out how to get it done. Exactly how I do it . Cheers 🍻
Wow that is amazing looks beautiful thank you so much for the videos all of them I never thought about when you laugh the two panels over like you're talking about the water setting up in there in between the two pieces of metal and cause any problem thank you so much for all the tips and all the education you are giving
Patients is the key and you have it in abundance . Well done Michael Angelo.
Amazing work again! It's nearly as good as working alongside of you. I always learn from your video's. Thank you.
Easyest way to explain heat. Any type of friction you apply to metal causes heat. Some more then others. You can hand sand and create heat. This guy is 100 percent right. Always control your heat. That in basically the most important thing is doing this type of work.
Looks great, excellent work and patience!!!
Just poetry in motion! Would give my eye teeth to get a good hot bowl of Newfie finnan' haddie!
Nice!!!!! Cut and butt works. Learned a lot from your videos. Thank you sir
I'm so glad to see your back on the olds 💪
Wow thats looks factory. GREAT WORK!
That looks awesome. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I am always learning for your work. You are an excellente teacher.
If you attached a strip of metal to the scrap metal pieces before covering them all the way up in the back of the hood where you can't reach you can grab the strip of metal and pull it out and the scrap will be attached to it. Great videos!
Did my first cut-n-butt yesterday on my 1985 Landcruiser, THANK YOU for all your videos! So instructional with the tips .. only reason a guy like me can tackle an entire vehicle restoration .. thank you so much, greetings from the Left Coast (Victoria, BC)
Am learning ideas from you here in Australia ...
Tim Minchin (our Aussie Comedian) defines who you are in 2013 ... ✌👍
time is money, but your patience Tony is GOLD ! 👍 great accomplishment once again...✔ 🎉✔
Welders Patience!!! WAIT for the metal to cool! I tend to get into too much of hurry in welding my cut n butt joints!!
Great video on simple cut n butt. Don’t rush it!
another master class,looks amazing and made very simply.....well done
The timing of this vid is perfect. I want to do a one-off all steel custom hood for a project car and I needed to see a professional graft steel into steel (cut & butt) to see the heat control, the rough/finish grinding, and what to watch out for in a large panel.
I've pieced a corner on a hood from another, a corner onto a door, but most of my work has been putting on new quarters, skinned a few doors, small roof repairs etc.
Yours is becoming a lost art (much like tool & die - my trade), and I thank you for passing it along to keep it alive, these skills define a true craftsmen.
Again, thank you, sincerely.
Mate that is definitely a work of art. The way you metal work is a joy to watch and having painted a LOT of cars, this is the way I like my metal finished. Top work
Phenomenal video as usual!!👍👌
You have put a great deal of time into this project Fitzee, much to our benefit!!
Thank you!!
One very nice job and very interesting video - thanks. CHEERS from AUSTRALIA.
Quite the piece of work Tony, lots going on here to digest. I have no doubts that the hood / scoops will all look factory when it's sitting in primer, awesome job brother well done!
Thanks! Outstanding camera work and real time problem solving on a complicated cut and butt!
Nice nother good video as always love to meet u in person someday..thanks again
i loved watching you work you show that taking you time will get better finish with less body work to do at the end great job thank you for showing us the right way
It looks great Fitzee...! 👍. I really enjoy your down to earth concept on the metal work ... to where it's good enough to the body work after...
You need to open another channel for your bodywork side... then you'll be smoking! Take care my friend... love your ways, and your channel !!!
Fantastic work. Amazing work. I lift my hat (cap) fore you 👍🏻
Tony wtf that was nuts had to watch the whole episode 2 am in the morning 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
was hooked
Love to see it finished out, enjoyed watching thanks
Watching the "boring" process of how a pro like you patiently welds the edges is invaluable to journeymen like myself!
It’s gotta be hard letting go of something that you’ve put some much into. What a piece of art that is!
Major undertaking! Perfect as usual.
Hi Tony. The hood looks incredible. You are a metal working artist! The car will definetly be one of a kind. Thanks for the video!
Love your cut and butt technique. It makes so much sense as opposed to the fiddly work of cutting a hole and then making a filler to the exact size and shape. By keeping the underlying material in place and cutting it away gradually the job maintains better structure and has a better shot at maintaining its shape.
💥Tony, You Sir, were blessed, not only with the aptitude for working with your hands, but through your many years of experience, You, my friend, have acquired the necessary patience of a true master!
GREAT JOB!!
best looking hood on the planet! Im sticking around. been waiten on this one.
I have enjoyed all of this project. I really enjoy how you show and explain the entire project step by step. The scoops look amazing. I watch your videos and get so motivated to head out to the shop and build some of my own. Really appreciate what you do and how you share it. Perhaps some day you could show off some of your bodywork skills and bring the whole project full circle. The sealing the seams with glass was a very helpful tip for me today. Take care Tony.
That hE did cool The motor?
A lot of the newer cars that peel paint and lawn mowers there decks peel paint ,,they don't sand the metal before the pain too smooth ,, just like putting paint on glass it will come off ,, Another Great Job Tony ,, working on 1 of my Jeeps it's a rust bucket .. well my dad dropped of his Jeep tail gate .. bottom edge is rusted away ,, going to repair it like you did the truck doors .. I will sand blast the inside frame work looks rough inside ,, we are in Western NY ,, they put lots of salt down on the roads ..it will eat you car fast if you don't keep it washed .. thumbs up on the video ,,
From the UK Thankyou for sharing your skills, you're a proper craftsman 👌👌
Thanks Mr. Fitzee I'm going to use this technique on a floor panel that someone overlapped. ..also I love that hood!
Amazing! Thanks for showing us the finished product. I am always impressed.
Impressive Tony, looks good!! Say hi to the inspector for me.
Another great job Tony.A true craftsman always makes it look simple, so it's great to see you overcome the hard bits. Love it all many thanks again. Joe
I am not a body guy at all. I’d rather rebuild a motor or tranny anytime. I’ve bought rust free 2 wheel drive pickups to swap onto my 4x4. I just did some rockers and patch panels a couple months ago thanks to you! They turned out ok for my first try. I know the mistakes and any body guy will see them. Not gonna try a hood tho! Thanks for the great videos!!
Hood looks amazing. Lots of work, once you fill and paint it will be great.
Excellent job 👍
Great job as usual,keep
up the great videos.
One word……..WOW!!!!!!! That’s as close to perfect as you can get without actually getting there…. You sir are a very patient man… i’d have had the lot of that stomped into a corner somewhere…. but that’s just me🥺🥺🥺… great work!!!!
Reminds me the time I sanded a hood down to bare metal then it rained for two days ( What Fun ) Think it was a 70,s Monte Carlo Dark Blue , painted it Gloss Black .😀
Tony, you are a brave man. I am nervous about this even after seeing the finished hood. You a master of metal fabrication. I think it's beer 30 time.
This is a beautiful hood. Nice work. I’m just starting my 69 charger hood repair and I looked up your Chanel to help me.
Ok. So a cut and butt along the whole edge (near the cowl), of the charger hood is tricky like you’re dealing with on your hood because you cannot get the original out. I decided to do passenger side in one piece so I can have the driver side for a comparison for length. Still need to butt weld but may have to be more like a template
Great work! I love how you explain the process as you go. With every video of yours that I watch I seem to gain more confidence and maybe one day I'll finally finish the rest of the cab corners on the wife's 55 F100? LOL
Brother Tony,
Great movie!
Great work!!
Great instructions!!!
I hope you show doing the rest of the bodywork, priming, and painting.
Stunning! I have a '71 Cutlass I may do this to.
Well done . You did a amazing job .
Thank you for the Video the Tips and Tricks.
Thank you for showing your skills and the process to do the job .
Take care have a good week
Yours Frank Galetzka
The hood looks better than great Thanks for your videos Bill N LI NY
I’m always impressed by your work, but you’ve really impressed me here! Great work brother !
Wow! I was holding my breath a few times there. So much at stake if it messes up. Turned out great!
Love these videos.
Hope there's an end of the season cruise again this year.
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Having seen your method of using overlap to get the contour of the patch, and then cutting on an angle and converting a lap-joint to a butt-joint a few times, any other method just seems wrong.
But sometimes there's a reason to do it different, and you gotta watch the heat. Thanks so much for sharing your process with us, that really helps us to develop a process of our own.
Very informative. I'm three years into body work and years before getting formal training in my mind butt welding was done this way rather than trying to cut both panels perfectly straight and applying butt weld clips etc. This gets straight to it, granted you can get to the panel below the replacement, as you clearly explained. Well done and thanks for the proof of concept! Worthy sub!
simply amazing that these scoops were made from scratch
I like the real time footage where you are keeping the panel cool, even while grinding through the tackwelds. this stuff just plain takes time!
Such beautiful craftsmanship Tony! Absolutely wonderful job!!
The rest of the car should be a lot easier after this right 🤷🏻♂️
The Vista Cruiser was my first car! Another GREAT job Fitzee!
Tony, it's really relieving to see you leave some imperfect welds, crack, pinholes, etc. I wish I'd seen this a month ago. I've been flux-core welding 22g on some fenders, and just butchering it. I start off with a perfect patch, I tack okay, I try to really carefully not put any heat into it, jumping forward an inch every time and cooling before the next round, but flux-core just isn't compromising like that. If you don't have enough heat the flux doesn't boil out in time and creates pinholes as it cools. So I go back and try more heat, which then deforms the panel. Back and forth chasing pinholes and grinding until the panel is 3/16" deformed everywhere. Looks awful. But I kept thinking "Can't leave any holes, water will get in". Well, hadn't considered that it'll need a skim of filler anyways, and those holes and low spots on the edges of the weld wouldn't be a problem. I know flux-core is the wrong tool, but I wanted to push myself and see if it would be possible with enough practice and patience. Turns out, no. 20g? Yes. 22g, far as I can tell, just can't be done.
Hey, if you stick on a sacrificial piece of metal to whatever patch you're welding (so it's in the circuit) then start each patch tack by running a quick tack on the sacrificial piece first so the tip of the wire is glowing before you run your actual tack on the patch you'll have a lot less pinholes etc .. hope that makes sense! Had to learn how to use flux on panels during lockdown when I couldn't get anything else!
That was an amazing job. It looks great. I hope we will get to see it filled and painted...eventually.
Long job you have great patience 👍
Beautiful work again Tony. That hood look mean.
Fitzee...when you add a thicker gauge to a thinner gauge metal, especially on a panel that opens and closes, you open yourself up to filler lift off because thinner metal around the thicker metal will vibrate at a different rate. The effect will be like a wave hitting shore and casting up the sand. It won't be so bad for you because those louvre covers are in a stiffer area of the hood. I cut and butt weld everything, making sure I have no 90 degree corners ( round them off)...and gas welding only. The reason for gas welding is you can forge the weld and take out the shrinking /warpage issues with a hammer and dolly.Gas welding makes for a more workable weld than mig. When you forge a weld, you end up with a panel of uniform gauge, assuming you welded in metal of the same gauge to start with. Check out the Brits...they cut and make such precise joints that they don't even use a filler rod. The job you did on those louvres , we had to do in our second level of auto body school...we were each given a hood and told to cut out a 4" x 4" piece from the middle...and then make a patch and butt weld it in with gas...it had to be perfectly metal finished , no filler...we had 4 hours.
Another fantastic job sir. It's like you said people don't realize how much work goes into doing custome work like that. I know it has to just wear you out by the time you got done what you had. Some times the mental work is harder then the physical work.
This must be one of the trickiest jobs you've ever done. Looks like it was way harder than the back end of the Fleetline. Very good tips with how not to stuff up the job. You could have almost made a cup of coffee while waiting on cooling in between welds, but better to take a few hours extra to do the job and not end up with a warped panel by rushing it. I have a big project coming up some time (if I ever get to it) and I've learned so much by watching your videos that it's going to be a big help to me when I get to my project. Thanks for taking the time to show us how to do this type of work in such a way as to get the best results.
Another great teaching video. You did a great job of explaining the process. Simply amazing how you made everything fit, again you did a great job of explaining the process throughout the video. A great educational video.Thanks again, and again I am very happy that you survived that ordeal with that very bad storm.
Nice work Fizzle the hood looks awesome like all the metal work I have seen you do in your videos. Keep up the good work .
Another great video m8 your a star with all your skills and great tips too nice one m8
Yea I enjoyed it, yes the tips were good.
I only hope you got paid well for your great work of metal sculpture.
Outstanding job Tony Looks Great
you have the patience to do so much and do it so well. this hood looks great. and this is one of your videos that I will have to keep replaying until I understand more of the lessons. And a big thankyou for showing more of the undercut welds and other non finished imperfections that you will cover with filler. perhaps I am trying to hard to metal finish my work. which is why it is taking so long to redo everything that I do.
looks fantastic tony!
That was a tough one. But I knew you could pull it out (sorry for the pun). I also enjoyed the show. That is Kustom. Ronnie.
Hello Fitzee. Another great job! Hope all is well with you and your family after that big storm!
George B.
Great work Tony - as usual.
It looks great! Can't wait to see it in wet primer or paint.
Always nice to see the inspector at the end of the videos.
Really nice job Fitzee, that hood turned out great. 👍👍👍 Take care
"You wouldn't believe the hours that go into making it all metal finish"
Yes. Yes I would. It's the 80/20 rule. The last 20% would take 80% of the time.....not that there is 20% left to make that metal finish. It looks more like 5%.....that would take around 95% of the time already put into it to finish.
The hood looks good, my friend. REAL good. I'm going to really enjoy seeing the rest of the project come together. You have a way with steel that is almost instinctual and I enjoy seeing it in action and your tips on what to look for and how to make it right. All the best.
Excellent metal work !