Let's see some sheet metal shaping

lets try that again...







johnny

 

Here is some pictures of a qtr panel dog leg I had to make





2 pieces welded together & its a lot tougher then it looks to make Danny.

 

So do we get any pics?

 

Check this out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69dA...182603277198006&feature=player_embedded#t=639

 

Sorry about that they showed up on my end.They should be up now.I had to cut out a few pictures to get them to fit in one thread.

The point I was trying to make with this post is you don't have to have a bunch of fancy tools to get the job done.

 

The pics are worth a thousand words.

Now I can go away and do my new trunk floor...

 

This is some good reading for the guy just getting started.

http://www.oldcarsweekly.com/resto_series_number_7_metal_shaping_fundamentals

 

I usually just love reading articles like this.Reading this article,I find it to be just a bunch of not so good information.It was more a advertising for the Eastwood English Wheel, planishing hammer.Which I personally think are both inferior tools.

All you need to do is draw a bunch of lines on your panel,what load of crap.Did you see there end result,it came out as good as the article.

 

I agree.

I'm not master by any means, but I found that article to simply be a rehash of material found elsewhere, interspersed with a little original (bad) advice.

I want to say it was useless, but if you didn't know anything at all, you'd learn something from it. I'm not sure all of it would be good information, but it'd get you started at least.

Like so many tech articles anymore, it's a thinly guised advertisement for a specific product(s).

 

For someone startng out your doing a excellent job. I have a Panel beater that I've taken courses from that's the best I've found. His name is John Crossley and he's just retired, so that means he's been fabricating for 40 ++ years. In two days he'll show how to build a fender. 90% of his class is hands on. There are only 4 guys in each class, so it's alot of one to one. He has a great way of putting the ideas across and he'll get his hands dirty. He's located in London, Ontario, Canada and if your intrested give him a call 1-519-644-2695. It's amazing when you've messed something up and fiqure you have to start again, John will come over tap the metal here and there and your up and running again. If he can teach Jesse James the rest of us have a shot. He's a great guy and if you get stuck he's only a phone call away and is more than happy to help you out. I've taken 3 of his classes and I'm planning on the next one.

Hope this helps: The Old Tinbasher

 

Thanks for the 1942 video Shane, that was cool.

 

Very cool metal shaping video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyHFfbwd_KE&feature=related

 

WOW!!! What an educational thread on metal fab. Just auwsome!

 

Ok so over the past couple of days I have been reading this thread and I must say it gave me the inspiration to get in the garage and give some sheet metal forming a go!
Now you will have to bear with me as I am fairly new to this. Ok I can cut a flat patch out and weld it on but shaping panels I have never had any success with.

So I rang around a few places trying to get a stump with no success so being the eager swine I am I couldn’t be bother to wait till I could find one and decided to cut the bottom off an old Co2 bottle I had in the garage as it had a small dish in it!

So after cutting the bottom off I welded it to a bit of 40mm box and stuck it in the vice. Equipped with a cheepo panel hammer I set to work. 20 minutes later I had the start of something. Now I know its not to the standards of the work on here but for my first attempt I was fairly pleased.







I know it has a long way to go but it’s a start right!

Well I would like to thank all the members that have contributed to this thread for sharing there techniques and wisdom because I wouldn’t have even attempted this without reading this thread.

 

You guys make it seem so easy. Amazing!

 

the HAMB has got me again, i read this entire thread, and am now on my way to find a stump. I'll take one of my boy's baseball bats and get him a new one for christmas. wish me luck, i may be gone through the weekend.

 

if your a total 'rookie' ,beginner ,what part of the fender did you do and did you have help?

 

lovin this thread. i really like bumpin metal. i don't have any presses or shrinkers or english wheels. just got some good hammers and dollies. a buddy of mine bought a merc grill and had a 50 ford. and he told me to go to town on it. not bad for my first time. my buddy flipped. i don't even put any filler on it.

 

The fender was my first real accomplishment in metal shaping.I was in the need of some rear fenders and I was getting really interested in metal shaping.

So I figured what would I be out,a piece of metal.So I started a thread on shaping a fender.I asked a ton of questions and was given so much good advice.I followed the advice like it was a recipe and shaped that fender.It was not easy,there was a scrap pile before it was finished.

I did everything on the fender myself but if it was not for the advice I received it would have never been possible.I think that is why I share the little knowledge I do have,it was given to me and now I am just given it back.

I have pretty much devoted all of my extra time into practicing different teqninks.It's not hard because I really enjoy it.I want to some day build a car from scratch maybe a lakes modified.

I always say that I am a rookie because how I do things may not always be right,it is just how I do it.Just because it is written on-line does not always make it true.So I always try to back up what I say with progress pictures.

Truthfully I thought this thread would die after a few days.So I am guessing there is some interest.

If you want to learn here is what I think is important.

You must practice

Learn how to shrink and stretch and cut and bend

Learn how to make and read patterns and contour gauges.

understand in and out of arrangement(this one kicked my ass)

Learn how to metal finish a weld

make sure you always have a good fit up.(This is art in it's own)

 

well here it goes, some of my metal shaping, here is a door skin i made for a customer for a 57 cameoshaping

 

here it is finished installed and gaped

 

heres a head light bucket i made for a nother customer , to get rid of the orgional pot metal , its in progress

 

here it is tacked in and showes the orgional pot metal pice compaired to the new sheetmetal one , i know its know hamb material but theres a lot of metalshaping just in one headlight bucket alone

 

heres a coupe made into an extended pick up

 

here s a rocker i made for a 34 chev pick up

 

did this cowl side out of alum. just might do the rest of the pu now.

 

dang yer good dude!