Metalwork - inner wheel well from scratch

Hi,

Here are a couple of photos that show the progress of the inner wheel well made by my brother.

This is the remainder of the original:


Step 0:


Progress using regular and planishing hammers:







Smoothened out:


Beaded:


In its place:

 

Great work. My ears and arms hurt just looking at it. Are you using a hammer form to get those sharp edges or do you do that with the planishing hammer?

 

Holy Smoke. You got some skills.

 

He's done it using a plastic hammer on the edge of an anvil.

 

Cool Work

 

Another Roadrunner saved from the ignominy of a rust death - in Hungary, no less. Fantastic metal working skills. Keep us in the loop as regards the tin beating as those skills definitely fit the scope of this board.

 

Outstanding Work! Now get your brother to build a custom.

 

Now that's just plain showing off! Looks perfect. That's talent

 

Wow!!! Nice work!!!

 

Is your brother using regular cold-rolled steel or DDQ (deep draw quality)?

Very nice work by the way.

 

Beautiful work...what's your brother's background in metalworking?

 

Wow.

 

That is spectacular metal shaping! Getting the edges of the panel back to straight after all that stretching is an awesome job.

John www.ghiaspecialties.com

 

i now have a new screen saver made from these pics, almost as good a naked women, almost.

 

Damn, I just realized that my skills are garbage

 

Great googlie-mooglie!!! Beautiful work. Thanks for sharing that.

Perhaps you guys could do another forming project, take lots & lots of pictures and do a tech piece for us. I for one would love to see the steps needed to plan as well as make a piece like that.

 

When John Kelly says it's good, it's GOOD!! Your brother has got the skills, where did he learn the craft? If you can post anything else that he has done, even non-car related.

Frank

 

Thanks for that. Thats inspiring.

 

Thats one of the best looking panels I've ever seen...ever

 

Wow!

Awesome work....

 

Googlie mooglie? LMAO! Sweet work.

 

I'm very happy that you like it. I knew he's very talented, we may once utilize his skills in the rodding business.

It's plain regular steel. He says he may try to get DDQ but it may be difficult to do in Hungary.

We can do it once when he's working on another piece.

He learned it all by himself. He has some special metalworking hammers, a small planishing hammer and a bead roller he also made himself. He's planning to make an English wheel soon.

Unfortunately we don't have too much time for crafting, but we're really thinking about starting our custom shop here in Hungary.

Thanks for the kind words!

 

very nice, the fact he made it in one piece and the flange came out correct is impressive

i`m interested in seeing a pic be pic process on the next one.

also have him go on www.metalmeet.com and look up flexible patterns , he might like the patterns better then his current method.

gary

 

Looks like a 66 Chevelle,to me.What incredible workmanship.

 

You're correct!

 

fantastic! stick close to your brother and learn all you can. send more pic's of the car.

 

Im-pressive!!!!

 

I keep trying to loan him a power hammer. They gotta get up here and drag it off. Imagine what the work will look like when he can shrink down into a two foot panel

And Yes not only is the work great but he's a good guy too.

He also does some wonderful hot rod art.

 

That is some really good work man.

 

unbelievable - thanks for sharing.