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Monster Garage: How To Fabricate Damn Near Anything (Motorbooks Workshop) |  | Authors: Ken Vose, Discovery Channel
Publisher: Motorbooks
Category: Book
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 615798
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Pages: 160
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 4.9 x 3.7 x 0.5
ISBN: 0760321949
Dewey Decimal Number: 629.23
EAN: 9780760321942
ASIN: 0760321949
Publication Date: December 2, 2005
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Product Description
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.
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Misleading title March 2, 2010
D. Hicks (West coast USA)
I checked this book out from my local library with the hopes of gaining some useful info on metalwork techniques. I was VERY disappointed that there was the smallest smattering of anything useful for learning anything about fabricating. This book is a complete waste of time.
go to the library December 23, 2008
Daniel M. Kane (usa)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
too many worthless pictures, large print,no content ,i will never buy a motorbooks book again!!!!!!!!!!!!,and beware of hp books also!!,unless you want worthless glossy pictures!!!!!
Not how to do any thing ! November 8, 2007
Don (WA)
17 out of 17 found this review helpful
Does not tell how to do any thing. Just a list of projects they have done and bragging about them selves.
A list of basic hand tools near the front of book, but no specifics on specialty tools. There are no list of how to use tooling or how to fabricate any thing.
Build a log splitter?? May 21, 2007
R. Simmonds (Kapiti, New Zealand)
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
As with the other three books in the series there is useful information here, just not a whole lot of it. The attempt to cover so many bases at once causes it to fall short in all of them. Being a Monster Garage publication one might reasonably expect it focus on custom cars, but it frequently digresses with such projects as a tool caddy and bizarrely, a log splitter. Further, if there was less emphasis on the stars of the custom car industry and more on the "how to" this would be a much better buy. As it is, it doesn't even make the grade as a Monster Garage souvenir book as Monster Garage barely makes a mention.
 Not what the title says. February 28, 2007
Michel Fithian (Upstate NY)
28 out of 28 found this review helpful
If you think you will actually learn how to fabricate something, you will be disappointed. It is not a HOW-TO book at all. It's nothing more than a listing of monster garage projects describing things they built. Most is a self-aggrandizement description of how great they are and the wild big stuff they built. Some don't even have a picture of the project. A better title is " Some stuff we built on Monster Garage". There are no tricks of the trade, nothing new or enlightening, most stuff can't be built by the average tinkerer anyhow because of the enormous tool arsenal required. A total waste. Sorry
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