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How To Shave Door Handles: Eastwood Shows You How In These Two Videos


How To Shave Door Handles: Eastwood Shows You How In These Two Videos

If you don’t follow the Eastwood guys on YouTube then you are missing out because they have cool tech videos, and live streaming tech, going up each and every week. You never know what they’ll have going, but it could be anything from one of their newest products to help you restore your hot rod, or how to build a chassis table for your project. Or in this case how to shave door handles for that smooth hot rod look. This video starts out as a live broadcast and has good information, good questions, and some good techniques.

Shaved door handles have been around in the custom car and truck world for decades, with varying degrees of popularity in different areas of the hot rodding community and during different periods of time. During the late 1980s, and through the 1990s, people were shaving the door handles off of everything. You were a weirdo if you were building a car or truck that had door handles, and if you did it was because you were swapping them for something custom. In the custom truck world, and especially the minitruck scene, shaving door handles has always been one of the go to body mods. We’ve done our fair share of them, and some vehicles are easier than others.

Cars or trucks with smooth curves and relatively square or rectangle door handles are much easier to shave than say those on a 1969 Camaro. For that you will have to cut out an area of the door and replace it with a new panel rather than being able to fill the hole left behind after removing the handle on something like a 1995 S10.

But regardless of what you have to shave, check out this video from Eastwood. Even filling the hole from a radio antenna would use the same process.


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3 thoughts on “How To Shave Door Handles: Eastwood Shows You How In These Two Videos

  1. Patrick

    I don’t like shaved handles and most of the cars and trucks I’ve ridden in that had them the solenoids never worked properly

  2. Ammocabby

    I’ve often wondered what the reaction to shaved door handles is among people such as firefighters and rescue works. Sure, the doors of a car may be locked while occupants are trapped inside, but… Having no door handles on a car says to me: “There’s an idiot inside here burning to death. Don’t bother rescuing him. This is just Darwinian evolution at work.”

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