Thank you Tony for sharing all of your wonderful skills and ideas! You are definitely inspiring, and give not only me but thousands of people the ambition and courage to tackle these projects. I’m in Ontario, but with these videos you feel like a neighbour. Keep it up! I’ll stick around!
GOOD POINT FITZEE....When you stitch or Pulse weld. You need the heat setting higher. Because when you run a bead it heats up as you weld more. You want your heat high enough to pulse short time periods and penetrate.
Big praises man...on pretty much every one of your videos, there is a moment where I say, "Fitzee's a genius!" This time it was when you cut the two slots one each side and then put them in the vice and raised the left and right sides. As soon as I saw that in the vice, I knew your plan...genius!
Looks like it came that way from the Factory ... Nice work, Tony.... I too hate grinding,, But I’m a better Grinder, than I am Welder... lol Thanks for the tips....
I reckon you've struck the UA-cam magic formula for diy rust repairs Tony. Time is free when it's your hobby but mega dollar fabrication tools aren't. Plus you need a massive shed to store them. Love your workmanship and your presentation style. Thanks for sharing.
After a few minutes of watching your videos a smile appears on my face..... just pure pleasure and an honor to witness your skill with metal unfold before my eyes.... thank you !
TRUE I always think about grinding whenever i am doing a repair. Inside corners are the toughest. I try to avoid welding in them VIA Bending lapping. anything I can do not to need to grind an inside corner. Makes life much easier.
Tony you're truly AMAZING!!!! I don't think there's anything you can't do! Over the winter months I think I'm going to start playing more with my welder! and I just bought a plasma cutter. Thanks for making everything look so, so easy!!!
Another awesome video. It’s amazing what can be done when you don’t over think it lol. Thanks for taking the time to put this content out here. I get re inspired with every video.
Am guessing some may see you as a "Lazy hacker", especially after watching your two-part "Quarter Panel" replacement video However you. offer an alternative which I have yet to see anywhere else on this or any other platform. Real-world solutions using tools and materials procured from "Crappy Tire" or Princess Auto.. Tin fabrication by hand is all that many of us can afford to do., your video on "Gasless Mig Welding" was gratefully accepted as my welder is a 120v Jobmate from good, old CTC. Replacing ONLY the rusted portions of the quarters absolutely made the most sense - provided lots of extra tin for fabrication as well!! Many thanks to the "Man from the Rock" from another "Tin Bender" to your West! (Reality dictates you don't have much to your EAST)
I absolutely love your patience and the way you take time to explain everything. I bought a a 2000 s10 79,000 kms never seen a snowflake and when the time comes to do custom work your mentoring will be invaluable. Thanks
Several times I have needed tinsmith jobs on my cars and I have never met a tinsmith who has the patience and skills you have to carve metal with solder and sanders, your work is truly admirable.
Tony good job! it's always a learning curve watching others do similar things I can do or have done! when I was in trade school before I got in the Sheet Metal trade the instructor used to say "When you know every thing there is to know about Sheet Metal, its time to go meet the Big Tinner!" he was not wrong there! keep up the good work!
That was a fantastic rolled panel! I love the way you broke it down into small manageable pieces. As if joining the two panels weren't enough, you put that really cool Indented piece in the middle. You could probably put a light on it as well. It looks like it came from the factory, it's that good.
I really appreciate your video editing. You show us all your work, every time. I often wonder how you're going to achieve something, it's great to see and hear how each step takes place.
Love this one. Exactly what I want to do on my NOVA project. Giving me some more insight and inspiring me to move forward with the custom work. Always look forward to your next newest video, Thanks for sharing, You are definitely a master in this stuff.
Thank you for that video. you truly inspire me to Try and do the sheet metal work to my 70 Monte Carlo myself. Please keep making videos and inspiring people
I just enrolled in a MIG welding class that starts in January. So keep them videos coming. Im going to trade my 100 weldpak for a 140 weldpak with small gas tank like you have. I really appreciate you sharing your knowledge.
Sometimes when explaining what you’re going to do I’m like how is that going to work, then you show how you do it and in like ohhhh, that’s how! Really enjoy your process. Thanks for the content.
Thank for your informative and resourceful videos. I`m an old swedish guy that many years ago worked as an professional sheet metal worker and beside that my whole life been reparing old cars that I saved from the junkyard. I`m a member of a group on Facebook where both professionals and amateurs are members and I have shared many of your videos there, which have been much appreciated. Keep up the good work!👍
Hey Tony, that is a really cool way to make the indent/recess in the top of the panel. I’m modifying a bumper and was pondering how to do something similar for the license plate cavity, and what you have shown is so much simpler than some of the ideas I have had and already discarded. Keep up the awesome work man!
Great job... once again Mr .Fitzee... I enjoy yourself ...,and your videos that you give us. Thank you all so much!!!.... Your training me to be more confident in myself... and my big tackle with my 68 Impala fastback... ty!
It would look like a difficult job few months before I found your channel. You are showing us how easily things can be made. Thank you for teaching me how to think about the job to do it easily and even encouraging me to start these "more advanced" sheet metal jobs. I always look forward to see any new video from you.
Thanks for another look into the master’s mind. Great advice, don’t get too far ahead of yourself before you clean and buff. I’ve a couple projects I’ve got started so far down the road it’s a chore to go back and finish it up. Makes you tend to give up all together or finish up half a$$ed. Thanks for instilling that idea.
🙋🏼♂️ Boa noite amigo Meus parabéns mais uma vez muito bom mais uma vez meus parabéns feliz Natal e um próspero Ano Novo cheio de saúde e paz para você e família Deus te abençoe🙌🏻👍🏻🇧🇷
Putting some of your tips to good work. I’m restoring my dad‘s old 1930 model A Tudor. The bottom 4 inches of the car is gone all the way around. One piece at a time, thanks for the tips.
I like the way you make the panels bigger then trim them down after, I think I will try to use that tip next time, I always seem to take too long trying to make things fit perfect on the first go then have to remake the piece if it turns out too small or the wrong shape.
Love your videos. I’ve learned a LOT from you and you’ve given me the confidence to start doing the sheet metal work on my 64 GTO myself - so far, so good. I especially like the fact that you use simple tools - since that’s what many of us doing this as a hobby are stuck with. One thing I’d really like to see is an example of what the back side of a good weld on sheet metal should look like. Any I’ve seen so far happen so fast and from such a distance that we don’t get a really good look at it.
I thought when you started this it was going to end up looking like.. well, you know what I'm getting at. But it came out really nice. You are a true professional when it comes to your work. I do believe that you could design and build a one of a kind body. Oh, there you go, do that.
Another gem of a video!!!👌👌👌 I find your solutions incredibly ingenious and yet so simple!! Thank you so much for imparting your knowledge!! Looking forward to the next video!!👍👍👍
I like how you matched, The drop down relief, at the bottom center of the truck bed. When I get to shapes like that “I imagine how I would make both the drop down and the relief”, that way you look at it with too much metal and not enough metal. That way you come up with cool ideas, but write them down or take pictures because it is easy to forget good ideas, I did 2 Mustang fast backs and I forgot the tricks I used on the first one. They both looked the same but the process was different, nothing wrong with that, lots of ways to do the same thing.
Tony, I know this would be a task for you, but on jobs like this, it would really cap it off to be able to see the finished project on the car, painted and done. Probably have to wait some time for some of those projects to be finished, but it would highlight your work as a finished piece. It is sometimes hard for us to appreciate how great it turns out when we see you give it back to the customer in this bare metal condition. What an update video that would be.
@@fitzeesfabrications Hi Tony, you accomplished what you said you would and the seam along the top looked factory. In this case I have no idea what it will look like filled, sanded and painted so I second the comment that showing finished product with paint would be ideal. If that isn't feasible, maybe showing panel primed would be enough.
Hey Tony, another great video. The hardest thing for me is patience. I was welding in a 3" strip in the inner side wall of the box on my 64 and got ahead of myself with the heat and warping. Had to cut most of the section loose and reweld. Couldn't get at the back side to dolly it back. Aaagh! I hope you and your family have a great Christmas! Thanks!
Love the way you say "all I did was" and then show us some genius way to make the impossible simple.
This is a good example of why experience is way more important than training or studying.
Thank you Tony for sharing all of your wonderful skills and ideas! You are definitely inspiring, and give not only me but thousands of people the ambition and courage to tackle these projects. I’m in Ontario, but with these videos you feel like a neighbour. Keep it up! I’ll stick around!
Roll the edge, cut a relief line and bend the rolled edge to match the bed above. Weld in a filler wedge. Brilliant solutions!
Thank you very much. In the past, I asked a friend to build the lic plate space; now I will be able to do it myself. You are a great teacher.
Absolutely love how you teach sir. Need more teachers like you.
I concur. An excellent Teacher!
Exelente Maestro!!!!!
Saludos desde cordoba Argentina.
That's got to be the sexiest tailpan to ever grace the tail end of a Datsun truck ever, beautiful work as always Tony 😍 👏
Enjoy watching someone that understands what they are doing!
GOOD POINT FITZEE....When you stitch or Pulse weld. You need the heat setting higher. Because when you run a bead it heats up as you weld more. You want your heat high enough to pulse short time periods and penetrate.
Big praises man...on pretty much every one of your videos, there is a moment where I say, "Fitzee's a genius!" This time it was when you cut the two slots one each side and then put them in the vice and raised the left and right sides. As soon as I saw that in the vice, I knew your plan...genius!
Looks like it came that way from the Factory ... Nice work, Tony....
I too hate grinding,, But I’m a better Grinder, than I am Welder... lol
Thanks for the tips....
Hi Toni, nothing fancy but it looks great! Thanks for taking us step by step how to fix it. Nice vid again. 😉
My background is cabinet making, its a different mind set with metal. You are helping me make the transition. Thank you.
I reckon you've struck the UA-cam magic formula for diy rust repairs Tony. Time is free when it's your hobby but mega dollar fabrication tools aren't. Plus you need a massive shed to store them. Love your workmanship and your presentation style. Thanks for sharing.
Fantastic job. Looks Factory. I've got to revisit your welding tutorials.
Beautiful job , can't wait for that little Crusty project .
Thanks for the education, and I hope that you are keeping warm.
Very nice work . Keep on teaching your followers.👍🇨🇦
Been bing watching your videos. Watched enough to start seeing the individual parts to a complicated patch panel.
For this I say *THANKS YOU!*
Hi Tony! Glad I stuck around. Watching you create works of art with simple tools inspires me to do more. Thanks for sharing!
Looking good Tony!
Nice job Fitzee. Great work on editing.
After a few minutes of watching your videos a smile appears on my face..... just pure pleasure and an honor to witness your skill with metal unfold before my eyes.... thank you !
Thank you Fitzee...Very detailed. Awesome work. From South Africa
Awesome job … enjoy watching your videos
TRUE I always think about grinding whenever i am doing a repair. Inside corners are the toughest. I try to avoid welding in them VIA Bending lapping. anything I can do not to need to grind an inside corner. Makes life much easier.
A , love the seams 💯%, You are a grand fabrication king , bless you and thee 1952 Chevy Deluxe
Tony you're truly AMAZING!!!! I don't think there's anything you can't do! Over the winter months I think I'm going to start playing more with my welder! and I just bought a plasma cutter. Thanks for making everything look so, so easy!!!
Another awesome video. It’s amazing what can be done when you don’t over think it lol. Thanks for taking the time to put this content out here. I get re inspired with every video.
I love watching you restore vehicles. I have learned so much!
the way you made that raised section (pure genius)
Thanks again Fitzee for sharing your techniques and working styles.
Am guessing some may see you as a "Lazy hacker", especially after watching your two-part "Quarter Panel" replacement video However you. offer an alternative which I have yet to see anywhere else on this or any other platform. Real-world solutions using tools and materials procured from "Crappy Tire" or Princess Auto.. Tin fabrication by hand is all that many of us can afford to do., your video on "Gasless Mig Welding" was gratefully accepted as my welder is a 120v Jobmate from good, old CTC. Replacing ONLY the rusted portions of the quarters absolutely made the most sense - provided lots of extra tin for fabrication as well!! Many thanks to the "Man from the Rock" from another "Tin Bender" to your West! (Reality dictates you don't have much to your EAST)
I absolutely love your patience and the way you take time to explain everything. I bought a a 2000 s10 79,000 kms never seen a snowflake and when the time comes to do custom work your mentoring will be invaluable. Thanks
Top notch as always. Happy as hell to see someone on this side of the country doing this work on UA-cam. Keep it up.
Several times I have needed tinsmith jobs on my cars and I have never met a tinsmith who has the patience and skills you have to carve metal with solder and sanders, your work is truly admirable.
Tony good job! it's always a learning curve watching others do similar things I can do or have done!
when I was in trade school before I got in the Sheet Metal trade the instructor used to say
"When you know every thing there is to know about Sheet Metal, its time to go meet the Big Tinner!"
he was not wrong there! keep up the good work!
That was a fantastic rolled panel! I love the way you broke it down into small manageable pieces. As if joining the two panels weren't enough, you put that really cool Indented piece in the middle. You could probably put a light on it as well. It looks like it came from the factory, it's that good.
Another video of brilliant techniques. Thank you.
I really appreciate your video editing. You show us all your work, every time. I often wonder how you're going to achieve something, it's great to see and hear how each step takes place.
Awesome job as always Tony. I would have never figured out how to make that area over the license plate box. Thanks for posting!
Wow! the tips were way good Fitz! Thanks!!!
Love this one. Exactly what I want to do on my NOVA project. Giving me some more insight and inspiring me to move forward with the custom work. Always look forward to your next newest video, Thanks for sharing, You are definitely a master in this stuff.
Awesome work Tony 👍
Man that turned out really good Fitzee! Cheers, Doug
Your talent never ceases to amaze me. Complex broken into basic components. Props sir!!
Thank you for that video. you truly inspire me to Try and do the sheet metal work to my 70 Monte Carlo myself. Please keep making videos and inspiring people
I just enrolled in a MIG welding class that starts in January. So keep them videos coming. Im going to trade my 100 weldpak for a 140 weldpak with small gas tank like you have. I really appreciate you sharing your knowledge.
Sometimes when explaining what you’re going to do I’m like how is that going to work, then you show how you do it and in like ohhhh, that’s how! Really enjoy your process. Thanks for the content.
Very nice job! Keep them coming!
Just watched this again, incredible work and process, Joe ❤❤❤❤
Thank for your informative and resourceful videos. I`m an old swedish guy that many years ago worked as an professional sheet metal worker and beside that my whole life been reparing old cars that I saved from the junkyard. I`m a member of a group on Facebook where both professionals and amateurs are members and I have shared many of your videos there, which have been much appreciated. Keep up the good work!👍
You are a hell of a fabricator. Excellent work. Detail makes all the difference.
Hey Tony, that is a really cool way to make the indent/recess in the top of the panel. I’m modifying a bumper and was pondering how to do something similar for the license plate cavity, and what you have shown is so much simpler than some of the ideas I have had and already discarded.
Keep up the awesome work man!
You can learn to weld in about an hour. Then spend the rest of your life perfecting it.
👍👍👍👍
Wow, what a great Idee!! With the numberplate awesome
Great idea for a custom dashboard.
Cheers to Fitzee. 🍻
Happy holidays. 🎁🎉🎊🎄
Tony you are a genius. I like your work and your sense of resourcefulness. Thank you for sharing .🤝🏆🙋🏻♂️
Great job... once again Mr .Fitzee... I enjoy yourself ...,and your videos that you give us. Thank you all so much!!!.... Your training me to be more confident in myself... and my big tackle with my 68 Impala fastback... ty!
It would look like a difficult job few months before I found your channel. You are showing us how easily things can be made. Thank you for teaching me how to think about the job to do it easily and even encouraging me to start these "more advanced" sheet metal jobs. I always look forward to see any new video from you.
Thanks for another look into the master’s mind. Great advice, don’t get too far ahead of yourself before you clean and buff. I’ve a couple projects I’ve got started so far down the road it’s a chore to go back and finish it up. Makes you tend to give up all together or finish up half a$$ed. Thanks for instilling that idea.
🙋🏼♂️ Boa noite amigo Meus parabéns mais uma vez muito bom mais uma vez meus parabéns feliz Natal e um próspero Ano Novo cheio de saúde e paz para você e família Deus te abençoe🙌🏻👍🏻🇧🇷
Nice finish of how the roll pan looks as if a factory stamping, like those crisp straight lines. Will be using your ideas. Thanks
Putting some of your tips to good work. I’m restoring my dad‘s old 1930 model A Tudor. The bottom 4 inches of the car is gone all the way around. One piece at a time, thanks for the tips.
Nice job Fitz.. that’s tidy !
Very nice work sir!! Looks great!!
I like the way you make the panels bigger then trim them down after, I think I will try to use that tip next time, I always seem to take too long trying to make things fit perfect on the first go then have to remake the piece if it turns out too small or the wrong shape.
I love how simple it is through your eyes!
This is closest style to what I am wanting to make for my 99 silverado. Thank you for sharing
Your meticulous methodology of working out the easiest and best route to achieving what your goal is inspiring.
Superb work & excellent tips as always the case with your tutorials.
Thanks for sharing your expertise.
RIck
Great work. Your skill plus instructional method is great to watch.
That was cool. Great tips brother
brilliant work well explained
I watch every video
excellent tips
Always fun to watch the master work. Good work
Love your videos. I’ve learned a LOT from you and you’ve given me the confidence to start doing the sheet metal work on my 64 GTO myself - so far, so good. I especially like the fact that you use simple tools - since that’s what many of us doing this as a hobby are stuck with. One thing I’d really like to see is an example of what the back side of a good weld on sheet metal should look like. Any I’ve seen so far happen so fast and from such a distance that we don’t get a really good look at it.
Parabéns amigo pelas palavras aí boa sorte no seu projeto dá uma olhadinha lá no meus produtos também
That's some really nice work. Thanks for doing these videos!
Genius, the way you do those dog legs is genius. Love the frenched in panel too. A very inspirational video, thanks again.
As usual, I learned some valuable information. It looks just like factory. Thanks!
Thx for the tip and trick of using the edge of the bed to find the correct angle for the license plate indent. It was so simple.
Thanks again for the knowledge love watching you seem like I need to stop making it hard on myself. Looks good
mind blown, thanks for the lesson sir
Learned more. Good episode.
Beautiful work Tony! Learned a lot!
as always, tips are great, and your timing is excellent for my own roll pan
I wish I could be there in your garage to teach me metal fab firsthand, thanks Tony
I thought when you started this it was going to end up looking like.. well, you know what I'm getting at. But it came out really nice. You are a true professional when it comes to your work. I do believe that you could design and build a one of a kind body. Oh, there you go, do that.
One of many dreams. Lol
Another gem of a video!!!👌👌👌
I find your solutions incredibly ingenious and yet so simple!!
Thank you so much for imparting your knowledge!!
Looking forward to the next video!!👍👍👍
i really enjoy watching your video's and im learning alot
Fitzees you are the master metal mind great tutorial 👌
Awesome job Fitzee!
I like how you matched, The drop down relief, at the bottom center of the truck bed. When I get to shapes like that “I imagine how I would make both the drop down and the relief”, that way you look at it with too much metal and not enough metal. That way you come up with cool ideas, but write them down or take pictures because it is easy to forget good ideas, I did 2 Mustang fast backs and I forgot the tricks I used on the first one. They both looked the same but the process was different, nothing wrong with that, lots of ways to do the same thing.
Another great teaching video. You are a great teacher and you show us how to simplify what you do. Have a merry christmas.
Tony, I know this would be a task for you, but on jobs like this, it would really cap it off to be able to see the finished project on the car, painted and done. Probably have to wait some time for some of those projects to be finished, but it would highlight your work as a finished piece. It is sometimes hard for us to appreciate how great it turns out when we see you give it back to the customer in this bare metal condition. What an update video that would be.
I'll be doing this. Nothing I done is complete yet. When they are ill be doing a shoot on what I done
@@fitzeesfabrications Hi Tony, you accomplished what you said you would and the seam along the top looked factory. In this case I have no idea what it will look like filled, sanded and painted so I second the comment that showing finished product with paint would be ideal. If that isn't feasible, maybe showing panel primed would be enough.
Hey Tony, another great video. The hardest thing for me is patience. I was welding in a 3" strip in the inner side wall of the box on my 64 and got ahead of myself with the heat and warping. Had to cut most of the section loose and reweld. Couldn't get at the back side to dolly it back. Aaagh! I hope you and your family have a great Christmas! Thanks!
Nice work tony. Thank you for showing us all the depth of your years of experience
Great work as always my friend. Thanks for showing us how it is done.
Very Nice work. Working with what you have. Dad always said. Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without. Merry Christmas!
Looks great, love how you made the top rolled edge line up, so simple and very effective.
Awesome work Fitzee! I would love to see some followups for your work after they've been filled and painted!