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Originally Posted by MP&C
If one were to planish a spot on a sheet of metal using a hammer on top and dolly beneath, this may add some stretch but things don't change all that quickly as the metal has not be persuaded very well in which direction to go.
Now take a sheet of metal on a shot bag and strike it with a blocking hammer. This has given the panel a bit of stretch, but also given it direction.
RE: the helper holding the panel in tighter at the front of the panel, the hood has more crown across the front edge than the back edge, so it is being given more persuasion.
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Just so I'm clear:
So by inducing direction in a wheel (physically manipulating the sheet by pulling,lifting, twisting,pinching) you are saying I can achieve shape change faster? I imagine a secondary function of this would be getting the panel closer to its final arrangement as well.