I'm simply in awe watching this. I would never have believed a panel could be made with seemingly so simple steps and at such speed. You really are a true artisan.
This is what I love about RUclips - seeing extremely talented people share their craft in an unfiltered manner. No commercials, no editing, no rush, no artificial deadlines. The craftsman shows us exactly what he want to show us, how he wants to show us. Absolutely incredible to see how this is done. Fantastic series ! You should have 1M subscribers given the quality of your content.
Thanks!, maybe you have some ideas on how to get to one million. I see people sweep their driveway and they have over a million views.😁😁😁. Maybe I should start sweeping and cleaning my lathe beds.
@@proshaper I've never had a RUclips channel, so I don't know. What I do know is that channels grow viewership exponentially. I also suspect that your audience is really narrow, ie people who are going to invest in the tools and time to build a single car body from scratch. What if you did a series on making hammer form bucks so that a group of people could easily make several car bodies at once? I'd love a body for that Maclaren ! There is no way I have to time to build one from scratch. But if there was a way to turn one out quickly, I'd be all for it. I'm surprised you don't have a ton of homebuilt aircraft people in your classes.
Thank you so much for giving me the in site into the proper way to build panels and the best methods. I am enjoying your videos and i envy mark for having a teacher like you . Keep up the great videos. regards Nigel Kingi.
Thank you for your videos I watch them all the time to sharpen my skills and learn as much as I can . I do a lot of restorations but would like to do just metal full time . Your a great teacher and thank you for taking the time to teach.
Fantastic videos lost of skill including the skill of being able to convey the methods over to us viewers not a skill that all are blessed with, so I thank you and will be trying this paper/tape patterns on my 1934 SS2 wings that I’ll be repairing soon in the new year . Your pattern type will take the guess work out of the job👍👍👍
I keep saying it but I never stop being amazed at how much torture that aluminum can take. It's looking good. You do seem to be struggling a little with your shoulder using that hammer. Sucks to get older, doesn't it.... Thanks for this, Wray and Mark.
Thank you for putting these videos together and showing these old-school how-to. I once worked in a pattern shop and benefitted from the oversight of "wood guys" and "iron guys" who progressed up the old union levels to become "master" machinist and pattern makers. I was hired to help them adopt automation in the form of advanced CAD & CAM. But when I left 18 months later, I had to honestly tell them (privately) I learned more from them than they learned from me (and what I learned wouldn't fill a thimble compared to any of those guys). It's important to keep these skills practiced and shared among people, they can and do inform other capabilities. Learning these skills also give us additional options. Seeing a skilled person practicing their art and talking about it while they're doing it, sharing the little thoughts, concerns, and observations that come to mind is really helpful. These are the things that hardly ever make it into a book. If there are ever books written on these sorts of skills, they're never taught in college or university.
Absolutely friggin amazing work ! I've wanted to build shaped parts forever, but never knew how. Great editing too. I love how the volume was turned down when you were bashing with the hammer and turned up when you were speaking. Thank you !
Great Video. Nice to see the transition from flat panel to something like a bag of walnuts and then onto a smoothed out basic panel shape just using a few tools you can make yourself. This will help a lot of people. Keep up the good work on the videos. Subscribers will follow to watch and learn from someone who knows what they are doing.
Damn! The first shots of the panel I thought if I found something like that I would throw it away...this goes to show you should never give up and judge the result in the middle stages...Good hard work and you make those creases disappear!
Exactly, if I started out and it looked like that, I'd throw it in the scrap bin. Then keep trying over until I'd just give up. But having someone around who knows better tell you, "Keep going. Remember, metal is clay"... Yeah, can't get that out of a book.
I am learning so much. Thank you for sharing. When you laughed you made me think of Peter Griffin. Hope thats not insulting. It made me happy on a crappy day. I wish I was closer to take your course :(
I'd say your "work softening" is removing the age temper taken by the panels when they sit on a shelf "seasoning" waiting to be sold 3 or 4 times through the supply chain. The plastic deformation you perform isn't the "beyond the flex limit" stress that work hardens excessively, and it seems to "wake up" the grain structure to the hardness it was manufactured to. I just found your channel, subscribed, and I'm wowed by your methodology, technique, and tool usage. Thanks for sharing this here!
really enjoying this series of videos. This video really shows the tucks being shrunk and the way they pop up again after a bit of stretching so well , its a master class in how to use a big hammer . Ive watched a fair few of your videos now , and the get the size before worrying about the shape really really makes sense .
I wish I had seen this video years ago. The flexible shape patern is a great idea. Thank you for sharing. Can't wait to see what your class schedule is.
Thankyou so much for giving me the insiite into the proper way to build panels and the best methods. Im enjoying your videos and i envey mark for having a teacher like you . Keep up the great videos. regards Nigel Kingi.
Hi, just another one of the most teaching videos on the market ---- for free!! Your experiences on 3003 h14 are exactly the same I have here in Germany. The only non occuring strange feature over here is this high note singing sound while wheeling the panel for the first time. Main influence is in my opinion the fact that h14 means that the sheet was brought from a natural soft state to a fully coldhardened via deformation and then being softened to "halfhard" condition by thermal treatment. There are lot of stages where "enough" and "hardly enough" are the same in respect to production costs. But 3003 h14 is a fantastic stuff to work with anyway. It took me 2 years to get hands on in Germany - and we had to buy 1100 kg minimum of 1.6mm at last. But after a certain learning curve it is worth while. I'm not quite shure , but in some situations I'm close to believe in a also time dependent behavior which is atypical a coldhardening alloy for. Well- strange but fantastic stuff.
Great work yet again wish I had information out there like this when I was learning I had to piece it all together from metal meet and the few videos on RUclips at the time keep up the good work
@@proshaper I did know actually it's funny all these years later and im still learning because of you it's my trade now and I think I'm stuck with the metal shaping bug for life I'm sure you know the feeling
That was like watching a magician at work! It is clear that every hammer blow counts how the final form emerges is still something of a mystery but it happened before our eyes..
Hi John, yes you are correct how much and where to hit is critical. "Metal is clay" I say, you mold it with the mallet instead of your fingers. You then smooth and refined the shape with the English wheel. You use the flexible shape pattern or a buck as your 3D blueprint. The real confusion comes in when a newby watches a power hammer advocate, or an Eckold machine advocate, or an advocate of only using the English wheel. Almost everyone that works in this craft latch on to one technique that uses a main tool. I try to teach that you can do the same job by using inexpensive tools. Knowing and understanding the techniques to move the metal is more important than knowing how to use a specific tool.
Not to detract from the video but I have a question. In the background I noticed other equipment, some of it quite large. Are those tools that you built? If you have never done so, it would be interesting to see a shop tour including the tools you have built and the tools you own just to get a bigger picture. I'm pretty new to watching your channel and without a complimentary mentioned by Carl at Make it Kustom, I can guarantee you, that I never would have seen your Channel. l become mesmerized when I watch you guys do your thing. You make it look so easy.
Go to my RUclips homepage click the video tab. All of the videos are there. You will find several shop tours. Yes, I design and build all of my English Wheels, power hammers, shrinker stretchers etc. I also sell them at my website www.proshaper.com
I like watching these videos. Wish I could do this type of work again. Beautiful work. Answered a lot of questions I had from earlier videos I watched of yours. I listened more on this video, than watched. I had written comments on work hardening, then you started talking about it, ha. Where do you source your raw panels? Local metal supplier?
I was a construction worker for about 10 years, digging holes, carrying and manipulating heavy stuff. One night a friend calls from a party. A few guys followed her there from the store, and were scaring people. I came over and these guys were straight out of an 80s karate movie. Shirts off, muscular, but Just douchebags claiming "they weren't gonna leave until they kicked someone's a**." One thing led to another and we were all in the front yard fighting, just trying to get them to leave. I was amazed how much stronger I was than them. It was like wrestling with a child. I had always heard about loggers and how strong they were, I guess I got some of that from my work. The reason I tell that story, is because I think this guy could probably shake the crap out of 90% of us if he had to.
Hey, Wray, Thanks for your response, I'm not sure if i looked at the correct video however i did gather some info on laying down the tape and lapping the other tape for strength, that being said Is their a specific brand and low tach tape i should purchase? T.I.A
I am not sure how well it would work, but the next time you shape a really curived part like that you might draw a grid on the panel. That could provide an instructive visual indication of how the metal is shrinking or stretching as it is worked.
Unfortunately the grid will fail in two ways. First unless it is acid or laser etched it will get wiped off. Second even if you could maintain the grid the movements of the metal- contraction and expansion of the surface area -is so small you wouldn't be able to "see" it. You would need to measure it in the thousands of an inch. The magic of the shape change - from flat to a compound curve is that it is accumulative. Each square inch of surface area of a panel either expands or contracts.
Watch my new series on scratch building an AI design Alfa Romeo. It will take me at least 200 videos to build the car. I have a Worcester, MA accent, different from Boston. 😁
You need 20 years of experience or you need 5 years of experience - nope, you just need a good teacher... thank you for the excellent video. Don’t worry about the length of your videos btw, if you made a 4 hour long video I would watch the whole thing just to learn from your experience.
Yes, I hear the "it takes 2000 to 5000 hours to learn" all the time. Then I have absolute beginner students take my class and create perfect panels, and go back to their home shops and continue to make perfect panels. Most people that do teach coachbuilding/metalshaping try to teach how to use the tools. In that method of teaching the tools become the magic ingredients. If you don't have the tools you are not going to succeed. My method is to teach how the metal moves "metal is clay". Tools are secondary techniques are primary.
The rubber coated wooden form that you are forming on is basically a female mold. Would it be beneficial to build a matching male form which could be with the female mold placed in a metal framework and using a 20 hydraulic jack to make a small press ? Different radius wooden molds could be developed to insert in the press to work different shaped panels. Would this eliminate much or part of the hammering process ?
I saw another guy hammer the gathers starting from the edge and working inward. You do it the opposite. Is there a reason to do it one way vs the other? Love the vids!
I really appreciate you making these videos and being a mentor to all us growing craftsmen out there. I’m a long time car builder and mentor to engineering students, but gearing up to finally get serious about metal forming and coach building for my customs. Just wanted to say thanks and I look forward to learn more! Check out my channel sometime if you have a moment. Cheers sir! -Casey
So the folds on the shrink areas are okay? The metal can just fold like that and you continue to smooth and make a uniform thickness? Do the folds of the metal recombine or bond somehow? Or do you just make sure not to pile up too many folds in one area, so it doesn't become several layers of foil?
Where the gathers are after correctly hammering them into themselves the metal thickens. It works exactly like clay "metal is clay". You have to accept that or you will get a headache over thinking it. It is not layers, it is thickening. As the spot you shrink thickens it occupies less surface area pulling the linear length of the edge together. If you haven't visited my RUclips channel home page you will find more videos explaining the process. ruclips.net/user/proshaper
@@proshaper on the stretching form that you talked about making you even told us what tipe of rubber it is . I'm just curious about where to find something like that other than the internet. Old school I like putting my hands on something before buying it .
Sorry about that, we show how to remove both layers of tape in this video ruclips.net/video/D5pwdVEUnog/видео.html . It will start 23 minutes in right when we start to take the flexible shape pattern off.
@@proshaper LOL, That piece came out well, here in the UK with the lock down I am machining a new night vision mount for my rifle. No DRO on my old Belgium mill so back to counting the dial ..Stay safe.
I'm simply in awe watching this. I would never have believed a panel could be made with seemingly so simple steps and at such speed. You really are a true artisan.
I have no intention of ever doing this, but find it fascinating to watch an artist at work.
Try it you'll like it.
Such a pleasure to watch when you get the right explanation. Thank you so much Wray for all we can learn from you.
This SURE beats the hell out of that lame crap on TV these days. Wray, you're giving us a twofer. We get entertained, and we get to learn something.
Thank you for your wonderful educational videos ,Barry Brighton UK
This silversmith appreciates the sharing of your knowledge. Beautiful technique!
This is what I love about RUclips - seeing extremely talented people share their craft in an unfiltered manner. No commercials, no editing, no rush, no artificial deadlines. The craftsman shows us exactly what he want to show us, how he wants to show us. Absolutely incredible to see how this is done. Fantastic series ! You should have 1M subscribers given the quality of your content.
Thanks!, maybe you have some ideas on how to get to one million. I see people sweep their driveway and they have over a million views.😁😁😁. Maybe I should start sweeping and cleaning my lathe beds.
@@proshaper I've never had a RUclips channel, so I don't know. What I do know is that channels grow viewership exponentially. I also suspect that your audience is really narrow, ie people who are going to invest in the tools and time to build a single car body from scratch.
What if you did a series on making hammer form bucks so that a group of people could easily make several car bodies at once? I'd love a body for that Maclaren ! There is no way I have to time to build one from scratch. But if there was a way to turn one out quickly, I'd be all for it.
I'm surprised you don't have a ton of homebuilt aircraft people in your classes.
A real treat to see a master craftsman at work. Thanks for sharing the tips and techniques for this and future generations.
i love these little bit longer videos.
Hey Wray - this is a masterful performance and demonstration jam-packed with high-value learning, thanks.
I see the subscriber numbers climbing. Very happy for you Wray. The work is paying off.
Thank you so much for giving me the in site into the proper way to build panels and the best methods. I am enjoying your videos and i envy mark for having a teacher like you . Keep up the great videos. regards Nigel Kingi.
Thank you for your videos I watch them all the time to sharpen my skills and learn as much as I can . I do a lot of restorations but would like to do just metal full time . Your a great teacher and thank you for taking the time to teach.
Thanks!
It's just amazing that you can take a flat piece of aluminum take to butt ugly POS to a fine finished product. Great job guys.
Fantastic videos lost of skill including the skill of being able to convey the methods over to us viewers not a skill that all are blessed with, so I thank you and will be trying this paper/tape patterns on my 1934 SS2 wings that I’ll be repairing soon in the new year . Your pattern type will take the guess work out of the job👍👍👍
Thanks, I sell the correct tape kits on my website. www.proshaper.com
watching from ongata rongai,nairobi Kenya.....you sure do have that perfectionist eye...Loving every second.
I keep saying it but I never stop being amazed at how much torture that aluminum can take.
It's looking good.
You do seem to be struggling a little with your shoulder using that hammer. Sucks to get older, doesn't it....
Thanks for this, Wray and Mark.
Thank you so much for making all this videos to the general public and for sharing your knowledge.
The more I watch the more it is sinking in! Fantastic video guys! Cheers, Doug
Thank you for putting these videos together and showing these old-school how-to. I once worked in a pattern shop and benefitted from the oversight of "wood guys" and "iron guys" who progressed up the old union levels to become "master" machinist and pattern makers. I was hired to help them adopt automation in the form of advanced CAD & CAM. But when I left 18 months later, I had to honestly tell them (privately) I learned more from them than they learned from me (and what I learned wouldn't fill a thimble compared to any of those guys).
It's important to keep these skills practiced and shared among people, they can and do inform other capabilities. Learning these skills also give us additional options. Seeing a skilled person practicing their art and talking about it while they're doing it, sharing the little thoughts, concerns, and observations that come to mind is really helpful.
These are the things that hardly ever make it into a book. If there are ever books written on these sorts of skills, they're never taught in college or university.
This man is an artist
Absolutely friggin amazing work ! I've wanted to build shaped parts forever, but never knew how.
Great editing too. I love how the volume was turned down when you were bashing with the hammer and turned up when you were speaking.
Thank you !
Great Video. Nice to see the transition from flat panel to something like a bag of walnuts and then onto a smoothed out basic panel shape just using a few tools you can make yourself.
This will help a lot of people.
Keep up the good work on the videos. Subscribers will follow to watch and learn from someone who knows what they are doing.
Damn! The first shots of the panel I thought if I found something like that I would throw it away...this goes to show you should never give up and judge the result in the middle stages...Good hard work and you make those creases disappear!
Remember the mantra: "metal is clay"
Exactly, if I started out and it looked like that, I'd throw it in the scrap bin. Then keep trying over until I'd just give up.
But having someone around who knows better tell you, "Keep going. Remember, metal is clay"... Yeah, can't get that out of a book.
I am learning so much. Thank you for sharing. When you laughed you made me think of Peter Griffin. Hope thats not insulting. It made me happy on a crappy day. I wish I was closer to take your course :(
I'd say your "work softening" is removing the age temper taken by the panels when they sit on a shelf "seasoning" waiting to be sold 3 or 4 times through the supply chain. The plastic deformation you perform isn't the "beyond the flex limit" stress that work hardens excessively, and it seems to "wake up" the grain structure to the hardness it was manufactured to. I just found your channel, subscribed, and I'm wowed by your methodology, technique, and tool usage. Thanks for sharing this here!
Bless you, sir, for ducking the audio during the strikes.
really enjoying this series of videos.
This video really shows the tucks being shrunk and the way they pop up again after a bit of stretching so well , its a master class in how to use a big hammer .
Ive watched a fair few of your videos now , and the get the size before worrying about the shape really really makes sense .
you Sir have a very nice wheel, thank you for taking the time to make this video!!
I wish I had seen this video years ago. The flexible shape patern is a great idea. Thank you for sharing. Can't wait to see what your class schedule is.
Thankyou so much for giving me the insiite into the proper way to build panels and the best methods. Im enjoying your videos and i envey mark for having a teacher like you . Keep up the great videos. regards Nigel Kingi.
Ahhh ..
The awesomeness !!
Thank you Wray and Mark!
Loving the videos! You guys are doing a great job !
Hi, just another one of the most teaching videos on the market ---- for free!! Your experiences on 3003 h14 are exactly the same I have here in Germany. The only non occuring strange feature over here is this high note singing sound while wheeling the panel for the first time. Main influence is in my opinion the fact that h14 means that the sheet was brought from a natural soft state to a fully coldhardened via deformation and then being softened to "halfhard" condition by thermal treatment. There are lot of stages where "enough" and "hardly enough" are the same in respect to production costs. But 3003 h14 is a fantastic stuff to work with anyway. It took me 2 years to get hands
on in Germany - and we had to buy 1100 kg minimum of 1.6mm at last. But after a certain learning curve it is worth while.
I'm not quite shure , but in some situations I'm close to believe in a also time dependent behavior which is atypical a coldhardening alloy for.
Well- strange but fantastic stuff.
priceless, great education here. Thanks Wray
keep em coming homeboy, from the sf bay area. loven it.
Great work yet again wish I had information out there like this when I was learning I had to piece it all together from metal meet and the few videos on RUclips at the time keep up the good work
Hi Kieren, thanks! You might not know it but I founded Metal Meet.
@@proshaper I did know actually it's funny all these years later and im still learning because of you it's my trade now and I think I'm stuck with the metal shaping bug for life I'm sure you know the feeling
That was like watching a magician at work! It is clear that every hammer blow counts how the final form emerges is still something of a mystery but it happened before our eyes..
Hi John, yes you are correct how much and where to hit is critical. "Metal is clay" I say, you mold it with the mallet instead of your fingers. You then smooth and refined the shape with the English wheel. You use the flexible shape pattern or a buck as your 3D blueprint. The real confusion comes in when a newby watches a power hammer advocate, or an Eckold machine advocate, or an advocate of only using the English wheel. Almost everyone that works in this craft latch on to one technique that uses a main tool. I try to teach that you can do the same job by using inexpensive tools. Knowing and understanding the techniques to move the metal is more important than knowing how to use a specific tool.
Not to detract from the video but I have a question.
In the background I noticed other equipment, some of it quite large. Are those tools that you built? If you have never done so, it would be interesting to see a shop tour including the tools you have built and the tools you own just to get a bigger picture.
I'm pretty new to watching your channel and without a complimentary mentioned by Carl at Make it Kustom, I can guarantee you, that I never would have seen your Channel. l become mesmerized when I watch you guys do your thing. You make it look so easy.
Go to my RUclips homepage click the video tab. All of the videos are there. You will find several shop tours. Yes, I design and build all of my English Wheels, power hammers, shrinker stretchers etc. I also sell them at my website www.proshaper.com
I like watching these videos. Wish I could do this type of work again. Beautiful work. Answered a lot of questions I had from earlier videos I watched of yours. I listened more on this video, than watched. I had written comments on work hardening, then you started talking about it, ha. Where do you source your raw panels? Local metal supplier?
Um grande professor!
In England we just call it a WHEEL
Excellent teaching 👍😎🌏🇦🇺
Wrey I glad I work with 20 gauge steel that second round of shrinking on the facilitator with that tough aluminium hahaha Great video 👍
Youre super professional!
Nice job
I was a construction worker for about 10 years, digging holes, carrying and manipulating heavy stuff. One night a friend calls from a party. A few guys followed her there from the store, and were scaring people. I came over and these guys were straight out of an 80s karate movie. Shirts off, muscular, but Just douchebags claiming "they weren't gonna leave until they kicked someone's a**." One thing led to another and we were all in the front yard fighting, just trying to get them to leave. I was amazed how much stronger I was than them. It was like wrestling with a child. I had always heard about loggers and how strong they were, I guess I got some of that from my work.
The reason I tell that story, is because I think this guy could probably shake the crap out of 90% of us if he had to.
Brilliant.
Damn you have skills.
Thanks, it's just close observation,passion, and remembering what you did.
Hey, Wray, Thanks for your response, I'm not sure if i looked at the correct video however i did gather some info on laying down the tape and lapping the other tape for strength, that being said Is their a specific brand and low tach tape i should purchase? T.I.A
Hi Gary, I sell the correct tapes on my website. www.proshaper.com. click metalshaping tools, they are right there. Thanks.
wow you are quite the artist! But you remind me a lot of Dexter (tv series) :)
Thank you. I would like to know what is the aluminum sheet that you used.
.060" 3003 aluminum
@@proshaper thank you
I am not sure how well it would work, but the next time you shape a really curived part like that you might draw a grid on the panel. That could provide an instructive visual indication of how the metal is shrinking or stretching as it is worked.
Unfortunately the grid will fail in two ways. First unless it is acid or laser etched it will get wiped off. Second even if you could maintain the grid the movements of the metal- contraction and expansion of the surface area -is so small you wouldn't be able to "see" it. You would need to measure it in the thousands of an inch. The magic of the shape change - from flat to a compound curve is that it is accumulative. Each square inch of surface area of a panel either expands or contracts.
I've seen so many of these videos I now have a Boston accent.
Watch my new series on scratch building an AI design Alfa Romeo. It will take me at least 200 videos to build the car. I have a Worcester, MA accent, different from Boston. 😁
I'm interested to see the price point on the gathering tool dies and machine.
You need 20 years of experience or you need 5 years of experience - nope, you just need a good teacher... thank you for the excellent video. Don’t worry about the length of your videos btw, if you made a 4 hour long video I would watch the whole thing just to learn from your experience.
Yes, I hear the "it takes 2000 to 5000 hours to learn" all the time. Then I have absolute beginner students take my class and create perfect panels, and go back to their home shops and continue to make perfect panels. Most people that do teach coachbuilding/metalshaping try to teach how to use the tools. In that method of teaching the tools become the magic ingredients. If you don't have the tools you are not going to succeed. My method is to teach how the metal moves "metal is clay". Tools are secondary techniques are primary.
Enjoyed
The rubber coated wooden form that you are forming on is basically a female mold. Would it be beneficial to build a matching male form which could be with the female mold placed in a metal framework and using a 20 hydraulic jack to make a small press ? Different radius wooden molds could be developed to insert in the press to work different shaped panels. Would this eliminate much or part of the hammering process ?
Nice!
Great instruction Wray, really practical stuff thanks so much! What is that Bosch (?) metal shear you used there, do you have a model number?
Hi Guido, Thanks! Here is a link to my Amazon store where the Bosch shear is listed. www.amazon.com/dp/B0035PYRVA/?ref=exp_proshaper_dp_vv_d
Maybe the work softening is from internal friction heat .
I saw another guy hammer the gathers starting from the edge and working inward. You do it the opposite. Is there a reason to do it one way vs the other? Love the vids!
Hi John, both ways work, I prefer inward outward watching what is happening as I crush the gathers.
What type of aluminum are you using and thickness?
Answer 060 3003 Aluminum
@@Zaze09 yes
I really appreciate you making these videos and being a mentor to all us growing craftsmen out there. I’m a long time car builder and mentor to engineering students, but gearing up to finally get serious about metal forming and coach building for my customs. Just wanted to say thanks and I look forward to learn more! Check out my channel sometime if you have a moment. Cheers sir! -Casey
Skills !
Just my to cents but iv seen them crush 55gallon drums with a vacum but like you said a press would be better
Bravo
So the folds on the shrink areas are okay? The metal can just fold like that and you continue to smooth and make a uniform thickness?
Do the folds of the metal recombine or bond somehow? Or do you just make sure not to pile up too many folds in one area, so it doesn't become several layers of foil?
Where the gathers are after correctly hammering them into themselves the metal thickens. It works exactly like clay "metal is clay". You have to accept that or you will get a headache over thinking it. It is not layers, it is thickening. As the spot you shrink thickens it occupies less surface area pulling the linear length of the edge together. If you haven't visited my RUclips channel home page you will find more videos explaining the process.
ruclips.net/user/proshaper
@@proshaper that is amazing, I had no idea aluminium could do that. I'll take a look at your other videos. Thank you
Where would you get the rubber matt material?
I'm not sure what you mean by "rubber mat material"
@@proshaper on the stretching form that you talked about making you even told us what tipe of rubber it is . I'm just curious about where to find something like that other than the internet. Old school I like putting my hands on something before buying it .
The vid was cut off before you showed how the tape was removed to have a pattern. I only heard something about plaster of Paris.
Sorry about that, we show how to remove both layers of tape in this video ruclips.net/video/D5pwdVEUnog/видео.html . It will start 23 minutes in right when we start to take the flexible shape pattern off.
Hope Mark gets his bar tab paid for holding on to the pattern...
There's not enough money in the world to cover that tab.
@@proshaper LOL, That piece came out well, here in the UK with the lock down I am machining a new night vision mount for my rifle. No DRO on my old Belgium mill so back to counting the dial ..Stay safe.
Save myself 10k for a couple of dents 😂