11 year old bike builder wanting to learn how to fabricate aluminum

[Zeke de Zeeuw]

Hi, my name is Zeke de Zeeuw. I build bikes with my dad but have had to buy or make bodywork out of fiberglass👎. I wanted to learn how to fabricate aluminum, so my dad told me to join this forum. So far just from being on his profile, Patrick DeZeeuw, I've learned a lot. To me age doesn't meen anything. I realized a beautiful art was dying because kids of my generation weren't out in the shop learning this stuff. Kids now are glued to a screen ( I'm sometimes that way ). They aren't on a screen looking how to fabricate aluminum, but they are on YouTube and Netflix. My YouTube channel zoomwithzeke is trying to get kids involved in this kind of stuff. So i was joining to learn and then teach others.

[Steve_Greenway]

Welcome to the forum, Zeke. We're glad you are here.

[toreadorxlt]

welcome!!!

[bobadame]

Welcome Zeke. That's a nice Cafe Honda you and your dad built.

[Steve Hamilton]

Hi Zeke

Welcome to Allmetalshaping!
I have viewed some of you videos, great to see a young man with goals to do hands on skills. You and your skills will be in high demand when you are ready to join the work force. I was a teacher of auto mechanics 25 years ago, and the schools were getting rid of the workshops and the teacher at that time. now around here there is a shortage of skilled workers.

you and your father are doing a great job on the bikes,please ask questions if you don't understand what is being posted here on the site. someone will help you find the answer.

now get back to work

steve

[galooph]

Welcome to the forum, Zeke :-)

Great to have you here!

[The Old Tinbasher]

There's a young man after my own heart. I started when I was 11 getting into motorcycles and Dune Buggy's. Still enjoying it 50 years later.

Glad to see you here, you're in for a great Journey with a great bunch of people.

Isn't the Internet a great thing.

Zeke E-mail me your address and I'll send you a copy of my Sheet metal repair book. As a gift.

tinbasher@rogers.com

John Poole

[Peter Tommasini]

Hi Zeke welcome to the forum
Peter

[Barry]

Hi and welcome Zeke - great to see!
As much as you enjoy this already, I think the deeper value will emerge as you get older. Some of the happiest people I know are those who have the ability to make or repair something using their own hands and brain (the two go together).
I have friends stuck in careers who deeply envy what I do all day - the devaluing of manual work over the last three/four generations is beginning to be recognised as having taken away a vital part of our human-ness...

[Zeke de Zeeuw]

Originally Posted by bobadame

Welcome Zeke. That's a nice Cafe Honda you and your dad built.

Thank you very much