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Originally Posted by Doug M
Hi Kosta welcome.
Your fear If based like mine on creating garbage at the end may have a solution in starting from Garbage. You turn garbage into something fun (the metal shaping process), Helpful (like the headlight points in the correct direction), and beautiful (hey, it looks better than the garbage that was there before). Not on your Torino but I'm sure you have a friend that has a dented front fender you can straighten (you can always get a new ((used)) front fender at the auto recycling center).
People do amazing things with a small hammer and a little pressure in the thought out direction.
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Yes! That's exactly what I'm fearful of. But at the end of the day it comes to a few basic things - stretching, shrinking, cutting and bending. It's really interesting to me now, because before I never really payed much attention to handworking metal before, until recently. In a stamping process like I'm used to you are actually doing the exact same things, only with expensive automated equipment. What I started doing last night was putting paper on all sorts of shapes around my apartment to see where a surface would need to stretch or shrink to get some experience in the geometrical aspects. Then, I will plan my first project around the basic forming processes after I get to know where metal would need to stretch vs shrink. I guess if I apply that with what I already know about sheetmetal, I might start out ok.
Then, hammer away on a bag and a stump and see what I can do! Only problem is I'm about 4000 miles away from my shop, so it makes things a little difficult...
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