Hungry to learn - Greetings from NY

brooklynspeed · #1 08-19-2020, 05:13 PM

Hi Everyone,

Chari here from NY. 5 Months ago opened my tiny custom moto shop and community garage called Brooklyn Speed. It is time to up my game in metal shaping and understanding the fundamentals, good tools, right vendors etc. Have some experience welding steel and aluminum although still learning. Eventually want to build custom cars, restorations as well but that's next phase.

Hope to learn a lot here and share whatever I can be useful of.

You can check out my work and shop's progress here

Cheers.

Moving Molecules . · #2 08-20-2020, 01:20 AM

Welcome Chari, as a new company starting this year we know it’s not an easy ride.... Lucky third in was a Ferrari 275GTS rhd .... which will help going forward .
Your post was quite honest and as you can appreciate and respect it can take years to get up to speed.
So start off small.... Measure everything .... Measure Three times and cut once.....��.
My Boss is 22 and at 49 �� hopefully have the experience.

If you need any advice please PM me @Precision Panel Craft. UK.

cliffrod · #3 08-20-2020, 06:49 AM

Welcome to the forum, Chari.

dwmh · #4 08-20-2020, 08:22 AM

You've made a good start Chari. You have found the best forum for learning about metalshaping. Enjoy the journey.

metaldahlberg88 · #5 08-20-2020, 03:59 PM

Welcome to the site

brooklynspeed · #6 08-21-2020, 11:58 AM

Thank you very much for the welcome. I could not choose a worse time to open a shop I guess yet again, challenges make us better in many different ways...

So far I have sandbag, Fournier mallets, a cheap ball peen hammer and still awaiting my Eastwood shrinker/stretcher on the mail. Very , very much excited to build up my metal shaping station in the upcoming weeks. Now I am looking to purchase some hammer and dollies off of ebay and polish them up before putting them to work.

Cheers,