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Monster Garage:How To Fabricate Damn Near Anything
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Author: Ken Vose
Author: Discovery Channel
This fourth book in Motorbooks Monster Garage vehicle customization series takes readers through the basics of making parts from metal, plastic, or composites. When building custom cars or motorcycles, fabricating parts is a necessary part of the process. That is, fabricators must cut, bend, shape, weld, and fasten raw materials to create elements of their custom vehicles. A variety of fabrication processes used by fabricators featured on Monster Garage are covered in step-by-step detail.
This book is loaded with great photography shot on the set of Monster Garage and in the individual fabricators shops. Processes covered include shop set-up, basic tool selection, project planning, sheet metal fabrication, welding, machining, working with plastics and composites, and more.
About the Author
Ken Vose spent 25 years in the movie and television industries before becoming a full-time author in 1985. He has written novels and non-fiction books and for the magazines International Auto Style & Sport, Millimeter, Super Car & Classics, and Cigar Aficionado. He also hosted The Driver's Seat, a syndicated television show, and in 2001, Ken was guest curator for the exhibition "FANTASY AND FINS: The Artist and the Automobile" at the Petersen Museum in Los Angeles.
He is a member of The Mystery Writers of America, The Author's Guild, The International Motor Press Association, The National Writers Union, The Dramatists Guild of America, and The Society of Automotive Historians. He lives in a small village in northeastern Pennsylvania.
Format: Softbound
Pages: 160
Length: 8.25w x 10.625h
ISBN-13: 9780760321942
ISBN: 0760321949
Catalog ID: 139341AP
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Price: $21.95
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