Step one complete. Made a set of forks from an old Ford jack rod. Not the prettiest, but functional.
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Step two, try my hand at tucking.
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The metal just keeps going back to where it was except for the time it just folded over.
For the moment I'm just beating it with a ball peen against a vice or a 4X4 in said vice. I don't have the appropriate plastic head or baseball bat hammer at the moment. I can try that tomorrow. I don't have anything I need to tuck at the moment or any upcoming projects that would require tucking, but it's a skill that I don't have so I want to learn it. I'll be checking the thrift stores and the wife's closet to see if I can come up some scrap leather to make a beater bag for the second part.