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I'd happily make the aluminium ones all day long, the only tricky part with the brass ones is the soldering after chroming though its not to difficult. I would love to know exactly when AC changed from brass to aluminium? Anyone know? I'm pretty sure I know why they did though. ;)

Good on you Peter for wanting perfection. I've been lucky with the ones I've done as it was a simple process of disassembly, de-chrome, re-chrome and reassembly, some always need a repair here or there. Once your tooled and jigged up its all good. I'd happily make the aluminium ones all day long though!

Thanks Keith. Yes I agree PJ these early grills are damn labour intensive. Some of the other car makes are just as intensive but these early ace brass grills have an added degree of difficulty because of the vertical leaf-bars, they are difficult to fabricate/duplicate.

Grilles are tricky, once its apart and you have the old chrome stripped off its a process reassembling it back into the jig etc.

I've fabricated and restored a few brass grilles, yes needs to be re-chromed in all its separate pieces then reassembled in a jig to hold it in place and re-solder it all back together.

I can give a bit of advice Jeffrey.

Thanks Nigel, I made the new nose.

The standard aluminium one is a joy, the brass one isn't.

I've had a lot to do with both types, ones a joy and the other isn't!
   

The buck is undersized.

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