New guy from England

[Stretch]

Hi folks! Matt here from Cornwall, England, aged 47. I started out metal shaping in 1984 when, at 16 years old, I worked as an apprentice building and restoring historical racing Jaguars from the 1950's and 1960's. I was apprenticed to an amazing character called Frank Knight who was in his 70's and fit as a fiddle. He had done it all: worked at Rolls Royce, built Spitfires and Hurricanes during the war and had worked on movies making one-off items for film sets.
Anyway, Frank taught me quite a lot of old school tricks, sadly many of which I have forgotten or not used for ages due to a slight change of career. I'm still working on classic cars, but mainly engineering and fabrication of components such as intercoolers, tanks etc.
However, I've rekindled an interest in double curvature work and want to relearn stuff I've either forgotten, or have yet to learn. Frank at 76 said you'll always keep learning how to shape metal, so it's a life-long learning process!
So, that's a little about me. Hopefully I'll pick up some useful info and tips and maybe in due course I might be able to share some tricks! Cheers, Matt

[RockHillWill]

Good morning Stretch, welcome to the site.

[Peter Tommasini]

Hi Matt welcome to the forum
Peter

[Oldnek]

Hi Matt and welcome.
Cheers John

[Stretch]

Thank you for the welcomes!
Cheers, Matt

[David Gardiner]

Welcome to the forum Matt. Good to have another Brit here.

David