All MetalShaping - Hello from norther Illinois

Hello everyone my name is Brian currently located in northern Illinois.
I've been on and off again with metal shaping, taken quite a few classes in the past years and made lot of small sized items or modifications regarding sheet metal. Been kinda held back a little due to lack of equipment which hopefully will change shortly this year. I have a hobby shop I mostly build hot rods and drag cars in, have a love for aviation for I'm a private pilot also. Been a Machinist for the last 25 years running anything from manual machines and currently programmer/ operator of vertical cnc mills. I have quite a few projects on the horizon and need to get my butt in gear and hone some skills.

Current projects that I'll be working on soon: fabricate and bead roll a sign for a friends local bar... needs to be pretty and race carish looking (its a car theme bar)
Tin work on a back-halfed '71 Vega.
'32 Ford build for a friend

Hoping to get to a point I can fab a complete body....I got a long way to go!!

So Hi everyone, Brian. :)