401 ~ rear window

[camkram]

Further to my last post on remaking the timber frame for the rear window - Using a combination of the laminated timber strips that I had moulded to the steel frame in the car and the internal finishing aluminium frame, I steamed up 2 more strips and bonded them together.
As per the photos.
This way the corners of the window frame and the body roll could be accommodated with limited torsional twisting along the lower edge of the frame where it is most pronounced.
The result fits very snugly into the frame and will require some sanding to have a better fit along that bottom edge as well as substantial removal of timber in the outer edge to allow the head lining room to be folded over and secured.
Suspect oak may be resilient to tacks , but that is the way with this type of work - one solution leads to another problem.
If it was easy, it wouldn't be addictive,
Yours in passing,
Camkram