Monster Garage: How To Fabricate Damn Near Anything (Motorbooks Workshop)

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.