New Guy from Belgium
 

Hi Everybody,
I am joining your team ,
I am big fan of old british way to form panel with just few tools . No power tools for me. I love to weld thin aluminum by gas and my favourite cars are Daytona coupe, Lotus Eleven and Jag D type.
I would like to share and discover some vintage techniques. Fascinated by Williams and Pritchard work.
My Best
Mark

Welcome to the forum, Mark :)

Welcome to the forum, Mark.

Thank you guys :)

Hi Mark welcome to the forum
Peter

Welcome to AllMetalShaping Mark.

I'd recommend you purchase David Gardiners "Metal Shaping with hand tools" DVD. He is a Brit who practices the traditional ways. His DVD is absolutely packed with great stuff.

https://metalshapingzone.com/

welcome mark :)

Thank you all ,
Kerry, I already owned this DVD from Mr Gardiner years ago and practiced these techniques, Its one of my favourite DVD. Its really the roots of good metal shaping. I owned also the DVD from Mr Peach and Mr Tomasini, I really improved my skill thanks to that and some books.
Thank you for the good advices
Kindest Regards
Mark

Welcome Mark! Sure you will find what you need on this forum!

Regards,
Jan (Bruges, Belgium)

Hi Jan :)
Thank you , I am sure!;)

the best thing you can do mark is to head in to the garage and start shaping some metal, watch what happens, take pictures, ask questions. we all love pictures and are happy to help.

do you have any projects at the moment?

Hi Neil,
I recently moved house and free time is rather focused on the refreshening of my new home wich is time consuming , however some month ago, I built a 2/3 scale Lotus Eleven Head fairing wood buck (monoplace le Mans style) and made all panels in 1 mm aluminum with my wheel , they are spot on fitting and finishing out of the wheel with nice gleam and no bump and lump .
I just have to gas weld alltogether. My facilities are not yet ready.
I will post some picture of the whole job when accomplished :)
I am hardly looking for some informations about Williams and Pritchard (other than those already on internet) eventually people who worked with them or kew Len Pritchard . My goal is to improve my skill with some Oldtimer tips like WW2 avaiation metalshaper.
Kindest Regards
Mark

Welkom mark.