Every autobody practitioner has some favorite backing surface for hammering metal.
How to shape sheet metal by hand.
Rolling the sheet back and forth by hand curves and thins the metal as you guide it into the shape you want.
Cut it bend it shrink it and stretch it.
This video shows how to create and form your own sheet metal parts with limited tooling.
Shaped plastic mallets used with shot bag backing is a particularly effective hand forming combination.
These can range from anvils to blocks of various woods and even plastic materials.
Follow along as i demonstrate how you can begin shaping metal with hand tools only.
With a combination of these manipulations you can create anything from flat sheet and you.
Create curves in the steel by using a hammer and form or a mechanical roller machine if you have one.
In this video i show how to make a simple metal brake with a couple.
After all there are only four things you can do to metal.