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1st July 2019, 10:45 PM #16
FOR THE LOVE OF MDF,REDGUM and Metal,
Paul
It’s not a cute hammer it’s bloody heavy,
I think after swinging it for 1/2 hour you may change your romancing about it [emoji849].sorry timber type is the elusive unknown type we all have!
I just typed in “bumping hammer”
Into auntie Google imagineers “pics”
There’s dozens of different hammer types there so I can understand your confusion!
A lot were, what you would class as panel beating hammers.
The cute ones [emoji849] I think your referring too are called planashing hammers.
The top right hammer would be your more standard type of planashing hammer.
It’s used to remove the bigger “dents” caused by the bumming hammer.
Like Blacksmiths we have lots of different hammers,
But in my reverse crash days I probably only used two of my hammers 90 percent of the time.
The light planashing hammer the most.
When I start making the base, I do a little wright up of the tools(hammers) I be using and a few pics
It really is not as mysterious as it seems.
You really can only bend stretch or shrink metal .
Lol
Now I will award five brownie points to the person who points out my “slapper”
In this pic
Cheers Matt.
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1st July 2019, 11:46 PM #17
Your slapper is hanging up on the back wall between the bossing mallet and what looks like a hide-faced hammer.
As a young apprentice who worked on a lot of rusty 70’s cars to suppliment my meagre pay I slapped a fair bit of metal around! My favourite was one with file teeth cut into it, it acted as a shrinker and would “pull” metal that had been stretched out back into flat.Nothing succeeds like a budgie without a beak.
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2nd July 2019, 08:54 AM #18
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2nd July 2019, 12:56 PM #19
Here’s my two blocking hammers and a nicely polished round headed one.
The big blocking hammer is a Matheson, it’s so heavy its a joke for someone like myself swinging it.
The other Guido the blacksmith at Everly Made as a prototype for a batch he made for the boys at Motorretro. Nice weight to it.
H.Jimcracks for the rich and/or wealthy. (aka GKB '88)
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2nd July 2019, 01:17 PM #20
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2nd July 2019, 01:19 PM #21
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2nd July 2019, 02:09 PM #22
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11th July 2019, 08:28 PM #23
Right I wasn’t going to post my progress un till I got bit further along.
But what the hell, why not, the forum seems to me a bit slow lately.
So last weekend, I picked up a lovely sheet of 1 mm bright cold rolled steel 1200/2400 for $55 Au.
I really should sweep out the back of my van more often.
So after a couple of false starts.
First attempt I tried shaping one side of base in one piece, that ended up with me feeling sore, an a piece of sheet metal looking like it’s been run over a few times by few large trucks,an would you believe it I’ve lost the pics [emoji849].
So after recovering from the first abomination,
I decided to attempt each side in a view more manageable piece that I will butt weld together later.
So late this afternoon after a few hours work, we are left with sore arms, but getting a little closer.
It’s not really looking like much at present,but hopefully it will come together fingers crossed.
Cheers Matt .
Not much wood work [emoji849][emoji849]
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13th July 2019, 09:31 AM #24
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14th July 2019, 01:13 PM #25
Gidday
I can remember using Peen hammers to hammer my truncated cones into shape when I did my Metal Fab Apprenticeship
I know that ache in the arm and hand and it aint going to get any easier erm........................youve pick a panel beaters nightmare as a starter project
And unless your planning on using a tonne of Bog its going an exercise in grit and determination rather than craftsmanship
It might make it easier if you use a panel beaters dolly behind your hammer blows
IF i dared to venture into the deep waters you are ID try making a MDF form as close as you can to your desired pattern and use this to help shape your sheet as close as possible
Good Luck am curious to see how she unfolds!
Regards LouJust Do The Best You Can With What You HAve At The Time
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14th July 2019, 02:47 PM #26
Paul,
I promise you no alcohol was harmed “yet” in the creation of a metal bag of walnuts.
If you keep being a perv I have my people sent your people, one large two person(not man that’s political incorrect)saw for immediate sharping,
Which I’m sure you were perving at [emoji849].
Next on the side that looks like big dirty lumps is planashing.
Cheers Matt.
Ps it’s freezing here so I stayed in side were it’s warm.
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14th July 2019, 04:23 PM #27
Lou,
Peen hammer ??
Wasn’t planning on covering it in an inch of bog,so we will see how we go [emoji849].
But once it’s ruff formed
An that is what you are looking at at present, I will be planashing,using a few of my dollies.
An one other trick I have!
I did actually think about make a solid form in Mdf and using that to shape it with!
Cheers Matt,[emoji849]
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