Wheeling machines

[Ian Williams]

I often use hammer forms for one off pieces, they are particularly useful when forming things like fire wall stiffening swages and such like. MDF is a good material to make them from as it is dense and stable the form will last for several pieces, particularly if working Aluminium. I do not use steel hammers that much when working Aluminium because it is soft and bruises easily, all the basic shaping is done with wooden tools and perhaps a few improvised from an bit of nylon bread board. Final planishing is usually done with a slapper rather than a panel hammer and this way I get good results. Steel panels being harder require steel tools, and than I would suggest investing in some good quality hammers, they are so much nicer to use than cheep poorly weighted tools. Kennedy in the UK used to do some nicely balanced hammers and dolly's that were not ridiculously expensive, don't know if they still do but worth checking out. 


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