Progress being made, time for an update! These pictures were from multiple days:
Plenty of work to do on the cab, starting with some firewall smoothing. Not going to smooth entirely, will keep those awesome original stamping details.
Repair complete on these pieces, the worksmanship is really fantastic - no body filler used.
Couple pictures from outside the shop. Decided to add a personal touch to the truck by getting the wood for the bed custom milled out of a tree from our family farm. Took down a nice 50-year-old shagbark hickory.
Check out the beautiful contrast between the heartwood and sapwood.
Cutting down to 10-foot sections.
Oh man this fresh green hickory was HEAVY! Got it loaded up and took it to a sawmill nearby. It has been milled to proper size and the boards are currently sitting in a kiln getting dried down to the proper moisture content. Can't wait to see when they are done so they can get finished into correct bed boards. The hickory should look really good..
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