Bonnet preparation.

Before I can begin lathing the bonnet I need to preapre the foam so that it will fit sequrely on the lathe. Firstly I glued two pieces of the yellow foam together to make a rectangular block.

I then had to draw the profile curves onto the block to determine where to cut the foam, making it small enough to fit on the lathe.



With the basic shape cut, tomorrows task will be to attach the mdf base which will be used as a contact point to the lathe attatchment. This piece has to be glued on very strongly to ensure that the foam does not move during the lathing process.