Starting from scratch

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Good day! My name's Ryer and I know next to nothing about metal shaping. But that's why I'm here. For a very long time I thought metal shaping was ultra rad. Watching guys on TV and in magazines rock an english wheel or planishing hammer to create a custom patch or an entire panel. It's always been quite fascinating but also pretty inaccessible due to time/money/space, ya know, the usual. Well now that's changed; I've switched careers and my hobby of building racecars has become my full time gig. With that I've found a practical application and need for forming metal. I'll probably be a quiet lurker sponging up info from old threads for a while before I start piping up and asking questions.

Edit* Everyone likes pictures. Here's a couple of my first uneducated attempts at bead rolling.

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Cheers,
Ryer