Wanted to take the time to say thank you for the education through your wonderful videos. After 30 plus years of wanting to do metal work on my own to compliment my hobby of restoring and building old Harley’s, I finally stepped off on the journey this year and put together a shop and started purchasing the tools to get me started in metal work. Your videos have given me a lot of guidance and encouragement. I started out on a harbor freight English wheel to build some fenders and I immediately ran into the problems you described with the bottom adjuster and etc. would love to be able to get your plans for the conversion on that wheel. Looked on Pro Shaper but could not find them. Would love to purchase some plans as well on converting an English wheel to a tipping wheel. I think your tipping wheel is a much better option than a bead roller for putting a ridge or spine down the middle of a motorcycle fender. My skill level is not quite there to cut a fender in half and bead roll the inside edge and weld back together like some do. If you ever start doing weekend or week long classes again I would like to attend. Though I wish I could, swinging a month off work just is not a possibility. Once again thanks for putting out this great content and giving us hobbyist a place to enjoy your sharing of knowledge and teaching skills. Dwayne McBryde Conroe, Texas
Today Boys and Girls we will beat the snot out of this flat piece of metal till we form it in to a beautiful motorcycle fender. Out standing video Sir. I really like the way you explain the how and why of the way you do things to the metal.
So I have been a machinist for 45+ years working with numbers. This is an art form and very intriguing! Retiring next year I think I will pursue learning some of this. Thank You!!!
Check out my RUclips homepage where you will find 207 videos on coachbuilding/metalshaping. Click the video tab and they are all there in the order they were made. ruclips.net/user/proshaper please subscribe.
30:28: "You gotta tell more friends". Wray, I tell Everyone about you, and the great experience I had with my Son up there. These videos are just right, as far as I am concerned. I see all kinds of videos where they are building stuff, but as soon as I realize that there is nor meat and potatoes, I tune right out. I watch yours until the end, every time! Thanks for the effort!
Well Wray, I'm 73 and just starting to get really interested in making compound curves in aluminium for my next Cyclekart. You are a huge help, if it wasn't for the virus I would come over from England and take a weeks class with you. Many, many thanks.
If you were 70 yrs old at the time this vid was made then you'd be 72 yrs now. And you definitely didn't look your age back then. Nice work and keep it up, mate!
Thanks Wray for the video, it has shown me a lot, currently working on a bike for my instructor at a Tech School, We'll be presenting it to the public within a month. If you haven't checked it out yet, the movie Mad Max: Furiosa, features a bike that Chris Hemsworth rides, my instructor built the exact one that is in the movie. The current bike is his next project and i'm proud to be a part of it!
Wray, great video! And I love that comment about people saying they think they're too old. I'm 50 and just changing career into vehicle restoration... I can look forward to at least another 20 years of hammer-swinging, I guess!
Well I’m 55...haven’t lived a life that was kind to my shoulders, elbows, wrists and everything in between...I would feeling it the next day!...awesome video!...never done this...amazed at how crude it looks affirst with and how perfect it ends up being in just a few more steps! Thanks for taking the time and effort to post!
Hi Wray. Thats a pretty Good idea to lower the video Sound when you smash on the sheet. Thats alowed me to watch your Videos early in the Morning . Thank you verry much . Greetings from northern Germany
No music is definitely the way to go thanks for no music and thanks for The best explanation on RUclips by far come on people get up to 1,000,000 views 👌🏼
Thank you Wray for starting this series. Thanks for answering my questions. Can't wait to see how to put the details into this fender. I totally appreciate everything you do for us guys trying to learn this craft. Keep up the great work!!!!
This video checks the boxes on many questions. Where do you hit the metal when chasing the spine on the shrinking facilitator? Check. Is the Harbor Freight wheel capable of smoothing? Check. Is Wray a master craftsman and all around great guy willing to share his experience and knowledge with the masses? Check, check, check.
I will share with my family of friends , it has been a while since I took your class . I hope all is well with you best regards Tony M. from Michigan, ( still have no one to yell at me ).
Hi Wray I'm sheet metal that I make bread trays with my moulding hand machine ill like your fender moulding sure watch more your fending to learn more thanks
Wray, happy birthday. Your a few weeks ahead of me to hit 70. I, just like you, can still swing a hammer, and i still ride my motorcycles. Keep up the good work.
Super awesome video, I love doing my own custom anything with loads of research before hand. But I learned more from this one video Than I have from some 100 other videos I have watched. I will be staying active with the channel and I love and appreciate your willingness to properly show and teach people your process of metal working!! Super awesome!!
I’ve built the shaping facilitator, a forming hammer with delrin, and now just finished the gathering tool(even without plans ;)). also a flexible shape pattern using your tapes. I rented the facilitator video and I’ll buy the other plans just to support you. Maybe I’ll do a video to show it can be done. Now, making parts to the correct area value - that will be another story! Keep ‘em coming!
Another great vid Wray. You make this look far less difficult. The true mark of a craftsman. FYI in Australia these English wheels are super expensive. I have seen quite a few other sites use a less expensive planishing hammer. Air chisel with flat mandrel and dies
Like your video very much 😆. Focussed on welding on my oldtimer underneath, now need for headlight area, round shapings. Had pictures from English Wheels in an old book "Sheet Metal Body Work", but video nowadays is so much more explaining. Thanks. Took you to abo 👩🏭
Very nice wray, I hope to see more videos like this in the near future. I have built a few of my metal working tools already, the english wheel I'm hoping will be my next tool.
Great RUclips, can't seem to find your plans to upgrade a harbor freight English wheel, did you ever get a chance to post them for sale? Thank You Gerry
Hey Wray. I really enjoy your videos and also enjoyed your class and can't wait to get back after all this covid is over. Can you do a video on larger low crown panels I really struggle with them and would love to see your take on them. Thanks Brad
Wow experience and excellent fending work vdo is perfect not laging but plz do how to folding side edge I'm from Kerala in lndia frist time I watching like comment and subscribed ur channel Jesus bless you
I'll be 70 soon, can't believe at 50 people can't use a mallet. Most useful comment "Metal is clay". Wished I had had that told me as an apprentice toolmaker. Great practical no Bull tuition. Stephen Australia, where we were once able and be allowed to do things!
THANKS for all your great videos - YOU ARE THE BEST! And Happy Birthday (you mentioned coming up). On a quick look for the self adhesive EPDM material, HOLY MOLY, That stuff is really expensive - Whoa! The manufacturers must have it confused - in INfused - with gold or platinum.
Wray, nice. I have a 47 dodge truck. Rear fender was dented in about a 12 x 12 dent. I popped it out and gently formed it out with low crown hammer. I’d now like to smooth the hammer marks but minimize stretching as I smooth so that I maintain the overall factory shape. Best method to me seems English wheel w low crown. I’d like to get it perfect to avoid any bondo. What would you do to smooth all the fine hammer dings. Kevin
Hi Kevin, see my several how to take out dent videos with the shrinking disc. I have 195 videos at my RUclips homepage. Www.ruclips.net/user/proshaper. Click the video tab and all of the videos are there.
Great Video Wray, looking forward to part 2 - best wishes for your Birthday in a couple of weeks time, keep up the good work and sharing of information, thanks
That EPDM is used as a roofing underpayment among other purposes; primarily because it is indeed self healing. The idea is of wind blows off a shingle and takes the nail(s) with it, the nail penetrations close up preventing water intrusion.
Upvote for the 30:00 'speech'. It's amazing to think that RUclips originally showed videos of peop;e doing madcap/stupid stuff (hence the title You tube! which is what Scots certainly say) and today we can see every type of skilled workshop non-automated manufacturing process presented by someone with a sense of humour.
What's your thoughts on Using planishing hammer after you beat a panel , before putting metal on the English wheel? Love your videos, thanks for sharing!!
Hi Jeff, the planishing hammer will smooth out the shrink and stretching residue. It can also be used to finesse the surface. I prefer the English wheel because it leaves a better surface finish.
Can you make a other vdo for old jawa bike mudguard it's only a beautifull fending work no any other bikes I nevar feel it's beautiful .plz make that .
Wanted to take the time to say thank you for the education through your wonderful videos. After 30 plus years of wanting to do metal work on my own to compliment my hobby of restoring and building old Harley’s, I finally stepped off on the journey this year and put together a shop and started purchasing the tools to get me started in metal work. Your videos have given me a lot of guidance and encouragement. I started out on a harbor freight English wheel to build some fenders and I immediately ran into the problems you described with the bottom adjuster and etc. would love to be able to get your plans for the conversion on that wheel. Looked on Pro Shaper but could not find them. Would love to purchase some plans as well on converting an English wheel to a tipping wheel. I think your tipping wheel is a much better option than a bead roller for putting a ridge or spine down the middle of a motorcycle fender. My skill level is not quite there to cut a fender in half and bead roll the inside edge and weld back together like some do. If you ever start doing weekend or week long classes again I would like to attend. Though I wish I could, swinging a month off work just is not a possibility. Once again thanks for putting out this great content and giving us hobbyist a place to enjoy your sharing of knowledge and teaching skills.
Dwayne McBryde
Conroe, Texas
I would watch 4 hours of this at a time...
Agreed
Today Boys and Girls we will beat the snot out of this flat piece of metal till we form it in to a beautiful motorcycle fender. Out standing video Sir. I really like the way you explain the how and why of the way you do things to the metal.
This is the best metal working video ive ever seen
If you just discovered my channel, you might not be aware that I have about 185 videos at my RUclips homepage ruclips.net/user/proshaper
So I have been a machinist for 45+ years working with numbers. This is an art form and very intriguing! Retiring next year I think I will pursue learning some of this. Thank You!!!
I call it a intense chess game with art and sweat.
Check out my RUclips homepage where you will find 207 videos on coachbuilding/metalshaping. Click the video tab and they are all there in the order they were made. ruclips.net/user/proshaper please subscribe.
@@proshaper I subscribed right away. Great stuff.
30:28: "You gotta tell more friends". Wray, I tell Everyone about you, and the great experience I had with my Son up there. These videos are just right, as far as I am concerned. I see all kinds of videos where they are building stuff, but as soon as I realize that there is nor meat and potatoes, I tune right out. I watch yours until the end, every time! Thanks for the effort!
Poetry in motion.I wished my school metalwork class had shown us these skills 45years ago.
Iam amazed how much you can stretch shrink and shape metal . Thank you for the class, very easy to follow, Good Teacher. Cheers Dave from Australia
Best metal shaping channel on RUclips.!! Thanks Wray.
Well Wray, I'm 73 and just starting to get really interested in making compound curves in aluminium for my next Cyclekart. You are a huge help, if it wasn't for the virus I would come over from England and take a weeks class with you. Many, many thanks.
I always learn a lot by watching your videos. thanks!
If you were 70 yrs old at the time this vid was made then you'd be 72 yrs now. And you definitely didn't look your age back then. Nice work and keep it up, mate!
I'll be 73 in April. Lots of naps and 80 hour work weeks.
@@proshaper # My problem I don't rest enough and I think I should, I passed 63 in Aug...
Thanks for putting this up! Making me a fan!!
100% the best metal shaping videos on the internet. Have just subscribed. I will spread the word.
Thanks Wray for the video, it has shown me a lot, currently working on a bike for my instructor at a Tech School, We'll be presenting it to the public within a month. If you haven't checked it out yet, the movie Mad Max: Furiosa, features a bike that Chris Hemsworth rides, my instructor built the exact one that is in the movie. The current bike is his next project and i'm proud to be a part of it!
Wray, great video! And I love that comment about people saying they think they're too old. I'm 50 and just changing career into vehicle restoration... I can look forward to at least another 20 years of hammer-swinging, I guess!
Only 20 more?😁😁😁
@@proshaper Well, at least 20 more! :-)
Well I’m 55...haven’t lived a life that was kind to my shoulders, elbows, wrists and everything in between...I would feeling it the next day!...awesome video!...never done this...amazed at how crude it looks affirst with and how perfect it ends up being in just a few more steps! Thanks for taking the time and effort to post!
my hat off for you thanks for details that make the diference I'm looking forwar to bily some fenders for my semi trucks..
Hi Wray. Thats a pretty Good idea to lower the video Sound when you smash on the sheet. Thats alowed me to watch your Videos early in the Morning . Thank you verry much . Greetings from northern Germany
Wray your pumping out the videos. I love it
Your techniques are inspiring.
No music is definitely the way to go thanks for no music and thanks for The best explanation on RUclips by far come on people get up to 1,000,000 views 👌🏼
Thank you Wray for starting this series. Thanks for answering my questions. Can't wait to see how to put the details into this fender. I totally appreciate everything you do for us guys trying to learn this craft. Keep up the great work!!!!
Pure artistry
This is great, you are fantastic... do you have a video on your hammers please. I'm also from New Zealand funny that.
Thanks for no music. I would way rather listen to the sound of metal being worked.
Yea me too
That hammered and crinkled unrolled part kind of looks sweet for a ratty chopper build.
Thanks for launching another interesting series Wray. To keep fit at 70+ we could join a gymnasium. I like this better.
Super travail , j' adore , respect from France .
Great work!!!
This video checks the boxes on many questions. Where do you hit the metal when chasing the spine on the shrinking facilitator? Check. Is the Harbor Freight wheel capable of smoothing? Check. Is Wray a master craftsman and all around great guy willing to share his experience and knowledge with the masses? Check, check, check.
I will share with my family of friends , it has been a while since I took your class . I hope all is well with you best regards Tony M. from Michigan, ( still have no one to yell at me ).
Hi Wray I'm sheet metal that I make bread trays with my moulding hand machine ill like your fender moulding sure watch more your fending to learn more thanks
Wray, happy birthday. Your a few weeks ahead of me to hit 70. I, just like you, can still swing a hammer, and
i still ride my motorcycles. Keep up the good work.
Amazed at you skill! Also, you are one of the best presenters I have viewed on youtube, easy to understand and follow. Thank you .
Loved your video, very educational, thanks !!!!!!
So you could make a sorts of things like Medieval Knights Armour, shields, helmets etc? How much fun must you be having!
Super awesome video, I love doing my own custom anything with loads of research before hand. But I learned more from this one video Than I have from some 100 other videos I have watched.
I will be staying active with the channel and I love and appreciate your willingness to properly show and teach people your process of metal working!! Super awesome!!
Fendah! You're in awesome shape for a man of your age. I would have guessed you were still in your 50s.
I take a nap everyday since I was 26. I work about 75 hrs a week doing what I love. The rest of the time is great too.
I don’t know why this is just now popping up in my feed. I thought I had watched all of your videos :-)
love this content, didnt get bored. You deserve 10M views
Thumbs up and subscribed! Thank you for an great lesson. I will for sure watch your videos and recommend for my friends with similar interests!
Proper work good sir,new to the show and loving it, goodwill to you.
I’ve built the shaping facilitator, a forming hammer with delrin, and now just finished the gathering tool(even without plans ;)). also a flexible shape pattern using your tapes. I rented the facilitator video and I’ll buy the other plans just to support you. Maybe I’ll do a video to show it can be done. Now, making parts to the correct area value - that will be another story! Keep ‘em coming!
Very interressing, thanks to you, we can learn how to shap metal
Another great vid Wray.
You make this look far less difficult.
The true mark of a craftsman.
FYI in Australia these English wheels are super expensive.
I have seen quite a few other sites use a less expensive planishing hammer. Air chisel with flat mandrel and dies
Ive watched paint dry without music,,,
But forming metal without music is way more interesting ,the results are awsome..thanks for the tutorial,,
Fantastic instruction Wray, I would love to try these skills. Thank you.
Another great video Wray, it's interesting to see that HF english wheel flex when you speed up the video. Thanks!
Wish I could take a class like this
Excellent tutorial thanks Wray
I was wondering how those curves are made
Like your video very much 😆. Focussed on welding on my oldtimer underneath, now need for headlight area, round shapings. Had pictures from English Wheels in an old book "Sheet Metal Body Work", but video nowadays is so much more explaining. Thanks. Took you to abo 👩🏭
Very nice wray, I hope to see more videos like this in the near future. I have built a few of my metal working tools already, the english wheel I'm hoping will be my next tool.
Thank you this was information, still want to see the restoration of the Jaguar door loved the tip on removing the spot welds.
I would definitely be down for the plans, would they also work for the rounded wheel hf sells
The conversion plans will only work on the square style Harbor Freight English wheels.
@@proshaper I would be interested in a plan set. For sure. I have the exact same wheel
Great RUclips, can't seem to find your plans to upgrade a harbor freight English wheel, did you ever get a chance to post them for sale? Thank You Gerry
Very nice work! Thanks for sharing the knowledge in a nice video! No music means more space for info! ;)
I subbed to this channel just by seeing the thumbnail lolzz
Incredible. Well done.
Hey Wray. I really enjoy your videos and also enjoyed your class and can't wait to get back after all this covid is over. Can you do a video on larger low crown panels I really struggle with them and would love to see your take on them.
Thanks Brad
What if you annealed it first? Wouldn't that help with the shaping, make it easier?
Wow experience and excellent fending work vdo is perfect not laging but plz do how to folding side edge I'm from Kerala in lndia frist time I watching like comment and subscribed ur channel Jesus bless you
Thanks
Awesome Wray, thanks for the great info!
Good work ka-Metal lalabs always
Can you show how to make the black death back finder
Entiendo que está es una labor de paciencia y perseverancia.
Me gustaría saber cómo se puede hacer lo mismo en acero inoxidable y aluminio
Fantastic tutorials 😊
I'll be 70 soon, can't believe at 50 people can't use a mallet.
Most useful comment "Metal is clay". Wished I had had that told me as an apprentice toolmaker.
Great practical no Bull tuition.
Stephen Australia, where we were once able and be allowed to do things!
THANKS for all your great videos - YOU ARE THE BEST! And Happy Birthday (you mentioned coming up).
On a quick look for the self adhesive EPDM material, HOLY MOLY, That stuff is really expensive - Whoa! The manufacturers must have it confused - in INfused - with gold or platinum.
The small rolls I found at Home Depot, if I remember correctly were around $40.00. There was enough on the roll to do one large shrinking facilitator.
You're my daily addictive viewing, love it!!!
Wow sir! Keep it up the good stuff, salamat
Go to my RUclips homepage ruclips.net/user/proshaper click the videos drop down tab, you will find 296 videos I made in the order I made them.
Wray, nice. I have a 47 dodge truck. Rear fender was dented in about a 12 x 12 dent. I popped it out and gently formed it out with low crown hammer. I’d now like to smooth the hammer marks but minimize stretching as I smooth so that I maintain the overall factory shape. Best method to me seems English wheel w low crown. I’d like to get it perfect to avoid any bondo. What would you do to smooth all the fine hammer dings.
Kevin
Hi Kevin, see my several how to take out dent videos with the shrinking disc. I have 195 videos at my RUclips homepage. Www.ruclips.net/user/proshaper. Click the video tab and all of the videos are there.
Wonderful explanation and details Good job
Great Video Wray, looking forward to part 2 - best wishes for your Birthday in a couple of weeks time, keep up the good work and sharing of information, thanks
Great video really informative thank you for the content
Awesome video
Very appreciated for this video.
Awesome videos
That EPDM is used as a roofing underpayment among other purposes; primarily because it is indeed self healing. The idea is of wind blows off a shingle and takes the nail(s) with it, the nail penetrations close up preventing water intrusion.
Best n beautiful work
The pulling things towards you thing is so correct , far more power that way
have you ever tried pushing a piece of string ...
When I made armor we used a stump with a leather pad and the planishing ball stake from the anvil to hammer it in.
Upvote for the 30:00 'speech'. It's amazing to think that RUclips originally showed videos of peop;e doing madcap/stupid stuff (hence the title You tube! which is what Scots certainly say) and today we can see every type of skilled workshop non-automated manufacturing process presented by someone with a sense of humour.
Great video.
Amazing 👍😎
Спасибо за ролики! Отличная подача материала.
Brilliant video
Everyone has a jig-saw and a band-saw! I keep mine in my bedroom, but I never switch them on after 10PM or before 7AM out of neighborly love.
Awesome Work, thanks for all the knowledge!
OUTSTANDING. I'm a immediate fan. The check is in the mail :) Cheers from So.Ca.USA 3rd House Om the Left.
Very very good
Top notch as usual! Thank you sir!
Beautiful , thanks a lot👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
What's your thoughts on Using planishing hammer after you beat a panel , before putting metal on the English wheel? Love your videos, thanks for sharing!!
Hi Jeff, the planishing hammer will smooth out the shrink and stretching residue. It can also be used to finesse the surface. I prefer the English wheel because it leaves a better surface finish.
Thank you, specially for noise reducing.✌
Nice watching..
Very interesting! 👍
I wish I live in your area!👍👍👍👍👏👏👏👏👏👏
Can you make a other vdo for old jawa bike mudguard it's only a beautifull fending work no any other bikes I nevar feel it's beautiful .plz make that .
Great to see you Young Hammer Swingers moving the "Clay". 75 year old hammer swinger.