Sheetmetal shaping

Lets see some advanced shaping and forming.

Lets see some advanced shaping and forming. Heres a set of teardrop wheel tubs im building for the F100. I make mine from 2 pieces and form the edges with my tank die in the bead roller.I make a template of the desired shape out of a piece of 3/4'' wide strap by stretching the outer edge (pic 3). I shrink the edge to be rolled, even more where the radius is tighter. After the edge is shrunk I run both edges through the roller to get the radius, then with a little more shrinking I have the 2 halves fitting together. Some welding, grinding, and filing and they are done. A little more time involved but looks way better than a welded square edge imo.

built a pullmax style machine.. then started on these 1/4's 2 nights ago.

Wow. Both of those look good.

That's awesome. I had the chance to buy a pullmax a few years back but wasn't into shaping as much as I am now, regret it now. I actually just machined a 33-34 beltline bead a few weeks ago just to have.

Not much shaping in this one but I was very happy with how it turned out.

Awesome work. Did this one recently. Started with a shell...split it, fixed a dent, and extended it... Pics are out of order but you get the point

Day 3 on this. It'll look better soon

Redid the bumper ends on a buddys 55 caddy. Got about 13 hrs into them and after a little more filing theyll be ready for chroming.

Nice work. I know there is a lot that actually gos into forming metal, that's for sure. Its not quite as easy as it looks. Good job on everything.

You may have said it, but what gauge is that metal? I have found it more difficult to work with 18 and up, VS the thicker metals, 16 and below.