[Rick Kilgore]

First, I would like to say thank you to the folks behind the curtain. Making this new site available is both timely and welcome.

I have been around since the old Yahoo site and have migrated through the various sites, posting when I thought I had something of value to contribute. I posted as rkilgore29.

I have been interested in the art of metal shaping since the mid 80s. I went to work for what was then Jack Rousch Performance Engineering. I was exposed to a variety of alternate fabrication techniques including what was then referred to as the English method. Basically this was what we now just refer to as metal shaping. Later after taking a course with Ron Fournier back in the early 90s, I got the bug for a wheeling machine. Most of the work I had been doing up to this point involved hammer forming. It was after this course that I began to appreciate the wheel. After seeing the work done by a number of others, I realized there was a lot more to this tool. I have much to learn and understand, and nowhere near the amount of time I would like to spend doing it.