Building the Splinter

Sorry for the lack of updates recently; I sometimes forget that people read this blog. With Phase 1 of the Splinter project complete, I am ...

Spent most of the morning getting my laptop running again. It failed in the middle of the presenstation at VT last week, and we are going ...

I spent most of the day at school today, because I have a lot of stuff to do for graduation and other things. Before I left, I cut some tri...

I jacked the Splinter up this morning took the front tires off. I had a bunch of errands to run and emails to write, which took me most of ...

I had some major cleanup work to do in the shop once we got back from VT, so I spent most of the weekend doing that. It feels good to have...

We just got back from Blacksburg, Virginia late last night after taking the car to Virginia Tech's Wood Week. I met Paul Winistorfer, t...

I had some clean-up on the car to do this morning, so I started by sanding the taillight surrounds and going over some of the areas on the b...

Front suspension work all day long today. Hunt and I both crawled under the car at least 217 times between us, because when you adjust 1 pa...

More suspension work today. Hunt and I worked most of the morning getting the driver's side back tire located properly. We also went t...

I went to school this morning and picked up some jam nuts and all-thread on the way back, showing up at about 2:30pm. Hunt worked on the su...

More truss trim-out detail this morning. I had to scrape epoxy out of the corners of the truss for a while, modifying a scraper to fit in t...

I went to school for most of the day today, getting back to the shop around 3:30pm. When I got back, I got the truss trim pieces glued down...

I routed the lightening holes back out of the truss, as they were covered over by the new layer of cherry veneer we added a day or 2 ago. ...

I went to school this morning to work, and came back to go to Huntersville with Ben and Luke. We got an invitation to visit Joe Gibbs Racin...

I planed some cherry backer this morning to 1/8" thick and laminated it to the curvature of the truss to make a trim piece. After this...

I block sanded the body all morning, concentrating primarily on the front fender lines. Hunt researched air springs and made the last 5 sid...

I block sanded the body this morning and got Caroline's assistance in putting a mold away this morning before going to school. When I g...

It looked like the sun got us on the rear cross section piece yesterday, because we found out that the part was bad this morning. Not terri...

I went to school this morning to work on my portfolio, and Hunt glued up more plywood pieces while I was gone. When I got back, I went to w...

I worked on trimming out the car some more this morning and helped Hunt get a part in the bag before going over to NC State to check some th...