This is what I started watching your videos for! I love watching you shape the metal. I like the engine, transmission, etc. videos as well. This one is not Jeep stuff, but that's ok with me too! MJ
Hi Brian sheet metal yes please. I am fascinated how you can move the metal and shape it. I think the last one I watched was when you made the inner fender well of a Jeep. Before that you where making the gas tank and building a body of a Jeep. It so cool what you can do! Please make sheet metal videos!!!! Thank you for sharing you expertise with us. I working on my Jeep now to bring it back to it glory!! Happy new year to you and yours!!!
@@metalshaperJeep I know it’s time consuming and perhaps not profitable to do the shaping vids but I love them. I don’t work at your level (and at 59yo probably never will) and work mostly with hand tools (no power hammer, for example) but I’m mostly self-taught. I’d say for the stuff I do you’ve provided me the context for 75% or more of the refinement knowledge of my earlier/prior crude skills over what? the last ten years or so? Instructions are often much more efficient to learn from than trial and error. Less expensive, too; I seldom wind up with “the do-overs.” Thank you
Everything about metal shaping I learned from you, and although I won't put any of that knowledge into practice as I'm more of a mechanic than a body builder. It's interesting to see these kind of videos. It sure is beautiful artwork what you do! Hope you had a blessed Christmas and that you end the year well!
Yes I like watching these videos because in a couple years I'm going to retire and start working on my jeeps making body panels, I've been slowly buying different tools to make body panels. Is there another way to create that panel if you do not have a power hammer or is it worth buy a power hammer to work on your own stuff😀👍👍
There are several simple, inexpensive ’small’ power hammers and shrinkers you can self-make as a project via plans/vids on youtube. Maybe look them up? I know I have loose plans to build one this summer; hammers and dollies and forms work, but I’m very sure that quite often just 10 minutes on a power hammer can do what takes hours to arrive at with hand tools. Time is the only thing we can’t buy or get more of without tools. I think just a couple shaping dies and planisher dies, and probably a basic English wheel will open up an entire new world of possibilities- even if they are just the small, ‘cheap’ self-made tools (that fit my small shop footprint). While I will most likely ‘sell’ my sheet metal services- I have occasionally done that- I have an enclosed trailer project I’m doing in a late 1940’s/1950’s style. I want to have appropriately rounded fenders true to the style period. After playing a bit it’s become quite clear that I’m unwilling or perhaps unable to shape 16ga or 18ga fenders with just hand tools. That’s my motivation. For the time investment to build a power hammer it appears that it will take far less time to build a hammer and two fenders than it would take to shape a single fender with hand tools, and because I’d ‘like’ to use 16ga fir the fenders it might not be possible with hand tools. Definitely not practical! I’d be ok with settling for 18ga but still- if you can put a coupla hundred bucks into one of those homemade hammers the return on your time will pay you back on the first project.
Brian, I enjoy watching all your videos, sheet metal, mechanical, painting. Thanks for your time.
Hey Brian, your sheet metal work is what got me interested in your channel to begin with. You’re a true craftsman in whatever you do. 👍👍👍
This is what I started watching your videos for! I love watching you shape the metal. I like the engine, transmission, etc. videos as well. This one is not Jeep stuff, but that's ok with me too!
MJ
Glad to have you watching, a variety of stuff coming for 2025
@@metalshaperJeep That'll great Brian, really enjoy all your output and marvel at your skill. Rod UK
Love the sheet metal videos. It’s what got me hooked on your channel years ago. Thanks Brian for all of the knowledge you share.
Glad you are still enjoying the videos!
Boy, my sentiments too! Loved watching you creating panels and teaching so many of your tricks and methods, Brian. Been a fan for many years!
Hi Brian sheet metal yes please. I am fascinated how you can move the metal and shape it. I think the last one I watched was when you made the inner fender well of a Jeep. Before that you where making the gas tank and building a body of a Jeep. It so cool what you can do! Please make sheet metal videos!!!! Thank you for sharing you expertise with us. I working on my Jeep now to bring it back to it glory!! Happy new year to you and yours!!!
More sheet metal videos are coming, I am working on several now.
@@metalshaperJeep
I know it’s time consuming and perhaps not profitable to do the shaping vids but I love them.
I don’t work at your level (and at 59yo probably never will) and work mostly with hand tools (no power hammer, for example) but I’m mostly self-taught. I’d say for the stuff I do you’ve provided me the context for 75% or more of the refinement knowledge of my earlier/prior crude skills over what? the last ten years or so?
Instructions are often much more efficient to learn from than trial and error. Less expensive, too; I seldom wind up with “the do-overs.”
Thank you
You’re so very skilled! Than you for sharing your knowledge!
Dam Brian, love the metalwork stuff. Wish you were making my jeep sheet metal stuff.
a man of many talents all your post's are fascinating Happy New Year !
happy new year, and thanks for watching
Love the sheet metal videos
Brian ... Back to performing magic with metal. Juan
always great. to know you are watching, thank you
any video you do is a master class for me... sir.
Thanks for the kind words, keep watching!
Wow! Love watching this. Thanks
+ 1 on sheetmetal, Thanks Brian. Happy new year!
happy new year to you as well. More sheetmetal stuff coming
Brian, that is awesome. Amazing!
Thanks Scott, hope all is well, happy new year
@ Happy New Year Brian.
Brian, i like all your video's! included metal! and ofcourse jeep engines en transmissions.👍
A variety of videos coming in 2025
Very impressive, appreciate the video.
thanks for watching
Everything about metal shaping I learned from you, and although I won't put any of that knowledge into practice as I'm more of a mechanic than a body builder. It's interesting to see these kind of videos. It sure is beautiful artwork what you do! Hope you had a blessed Christmas and that you end the year well!
Always appreciate you watching, more sheetmetal stuff on the way
Very nice video, thanks Brian
Thanks for watching!
👍 sheetmetal work
more videos coming soon
Thx!!!!!!
Yes I like watching these videos because in a couple years I'm going to retire and start working on my jeeps making body panels, I've been slowly buying different tools to make body panels. Is there another way to create that panel if you do not have a power hammer or is it worth buy a power hammer to work on your own stuff😀👍👍
More sheet metal videos coming. A power hammer is very fast at making panels but you can do most work on a Jeep with hammer forms and other tools.
There are several simple, inexpensive ’small’ power hammers and shrinkers you can self-make as a project via plans/vids on youtube. Maybe look them up?
I know I have loose plans to build one this summer; hammers and dollies and forms work, but I’m very sure that quite often just 10 minutes on a power hammer can do what takes hours to arrive at with hand tools.
Time is the only thing we can’t buy or get more of without tools.
I think just a couple shaping dies and planisher dies, and probably a basic English wheel will open up an entire new world of possibilities- even if they are just the small, ‘cheap’ self-made tools (that fit my small shop footprint).
While I will most likely ‘sell’ my sheet metal services- I have occasionally done that- I have an enclosed trailer project I’m doing in a late 1940’s/1950’s style. I want to have appropriately rounded fenders true to the style period. After playing a bit it’s become quite clear that I’m unwilling or perhaps unable to shape 16ga or 18ga fenders with just hand tools. That’s my motivation.
For the time investment to build a power hammer it appears that it will take far less time to build a hammer and two fenders than it would take to shape a single fender with hand tools, and because I’d ‘like’ to use 16ga fir the fenders it might not be possible with hand tools. Definitely not practical! I’d be ok with settling for 18ga but still- if you can put a coupla hundred bucks into one of those homemade hammers the return on your time will pay you back on the first project.
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always good to hear from you Jim