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Name is Lother and I live in Michigan. I recently purchased a 36 Chevy that needs serious work. I have some skills but certainly not the skills needed to fabricate the fenders or body panels on this car. I hoping to pick up the basics on metal fabrication and this forum looked like the best place to start. Any help would be appreciated.

Hi Lother and welcome!:)

Hi Luther welcome to the forum
Peter

Hi Luther, My advice is always to start with the basics which means learn to shape and smooth by hand. Most people don't have a shop full of machines to start with and you can make most things with nothing more than a few basic hand tools.

These bumpers for example were made using hand tools only. There is a thread on here somewhere showing how I made them.

http://allmetalshaping.com/picture.p...pictureid=8635

http://allmetalshaping.com/picture.p...pictureid=8909

Even when you do have every machine available these skills are needed to make, fit and finish panels to a good standard

David

Hello Luther and welcome. You are at the right site for learning.

Jere