That is one of the most informative and interesting videos on metal working I have viewed. Often wondered how that was done. Many thanks for posting it.
Once again, excellent explanation of your process for tipping the edge! That good sir is a lot of work! It's amazing to see just how massive that fender is! Incredible craftsmanship! Go Cornfield Customs, keep moving forward!
Great video. These are the skills needed to be taught again. Technology is great but you need to understand the how and why metal does what it does when being worked.
Hat to fix a damaged porsche 356 fender, removed the wire made the repair and replaced with 1/8 inch tig filler rod Much smaller than what you did Very much enjoying your videos
Great video Mike. I've learned a lot. I like the custom tool you made for doing the final round-over step. Thanks again for sharing your skills with us.
Great video! Slightly different, but I plan on adding electrical conduit to the much bigger radius on the fenders of my 39 Packard when I do the resto on it.
Wiring an edge is probably the easiest thing if one knows how to do it . ... let me tell you you are right on the money with this exercise , well explained and demonstrated !! As you said sometime a machine can not do for a number of reason ,so having hand skills comes very useful
Fantastic Video Mike. Love the clarity and tips. Particularly the edge tipping. Just a tip for those that have the inexpensive bench or pedestal mounted shrinking tool- you can add a handle - (piece of square tube) to the base and the use the normal Handle and then use by hand also. A little cumbersome but you can do it.
Thank you for this detailed and most helpful video. This is exactly the sort of instruction that shade tree guys like me need to develop our skills. Great stuff! Also, if it's possible to do so, can you include in a future video a picture of that giant fender in its new home?
Really enjoyed watching the process! That fender is impressive! Just curious about how many hours it takes to build a Mack truck fender from scratch. Thanks Mike.
13:15 Master Mike i wonder when shrinking this flange in a bend , what is happening to the metal on the other side of the edge 13:45 ? Is it shrinking too? I mean the first inch of metal on the other side of the edge. I've made a light crown dome in a 25 cm diameter circle sheet metal. Used only hammer and dolly , stump and soft faced hammer. Then i've made 1cm flange all around. I've shrinked the flange all around, it was a lot of beating on the stump. But it seems i have a defect all around the perimeter of the dome circle close to the edge where the flange bend starts. It looks like its dipped and lowered all around the perimeter , rather having the light crown i've made in the beginning. And only at the very outer perimeter. I must blend it somehow. Now if you look it from the side it looks domed but just before the edge it dipped and looks flat, just before the edge of the flange. Maybe i should stretch all the perimerer in order for it to flow again with the overall crown. I hope it needs stretching and not shrinking.
If wanting to fold the edge around a 3&16" bar, why not have a radius that matches the 3/16" bar, or slightly smaller to compensate for spring back, on the tipping tool, instead of a quite sharp edge as you have?
Prime example of no matter the skill.. u have to have patience. Id say the skill and machines many times help speed up productivity.. make it 10 times faster then someone with my time and skill would take.. kinda work if u try to rush it.. mess it up.end up more time if habe to go back to fix mess up fro. Trying to rush
At ~7 minutes in, is there a reason why you don't directly multiply by 0.85 to get the 15% removed? I'm thinking that'd save a step and not have to write/remember more numbers. :) That fender is absolutely insane by the way, hoping I can ever get that good.
When you make square bar bender, i think you should try flat bar with two small bearings. This way you can bend edge pretty easily. Like in this video th-cam.com/video/nYP4CAlugKo/w-d-xo.htmlsi=nU6YgmdXtkM7n3Vf
@@013chopper the video he is using super thin tin and you can see him struggling to use it and doesnt do a good job. This material is much thicker and the edge needs to be on point
Sorry but that's not how you calculate the bend length. You need to find the cord length. Aluminium has the meridan line as near as makes no odds in the centre of the material. Therefore in a full circle you would add 1 material thickness to the inside diameter and multiply by pi. It's probably not important in hammering over a wing. But if you were trying to roll a tube accurately it would be critical.
@@iiredeyeiiredeye1569 im sorry but this is how i do it and guess what it worked as intended. Your also always on here flapping your gums how wrong I am so no reason to listen to anything you have to say
Its nice to see someone who takes pride in there work no matter how much time it takes great job Mike 😎😎🤘🤘
Appreciate that!
Really appreciate watching you use the hand tools - you ARE an artist !
Thanks for the compliment!
That is one of the most informative and interesting videos on metal working I have viewed. Often wondered how that was done. Many thanks for posting it.
Once again, excellent explanation of your process for tipping the edge! That good sir is a lot of work! It's amazing to see just how massive that fender is! Incredible craftsmanship! Go Cornfield Customs, keep moving forward!
Great video. These are the skills needed to be taught again. Technology is great but you need to understand the how and why metal does what it does when being worked.
Nice to see other people do this. I do it very similar to this also. Good job 👍
Hat to fix a damaged porsche 356 fender, removed the wire made the repair and replaced with 1/8 inch tig filler rod
Much smaller than what you did
Very much enjoying your videos
Great video Mike. I've learned a lot. I like the custom tool you made for doing the final round-over step. Thanks again for sharing your skills with us.
Great video! Slightly different, but I plan on adding electrical conduit to the much bigger radius on the fenders of my 39 Packard when I do the resto on it.
Wow!!! I really enjoyed this video. You are indeed the artist I wish to be some day.
Awesome work..👍
Watching from Australia..🇦🇺
Great demo on hand tools and wiring edging 👍 👌 that fender sure is a big fella'
Amazing work....!Thanks for Sharing..!
Glad you liked it!
You are amazing… thanks for the wire edge training 👍👍👍
Wiring an edge is probably the easiest thing if one knows how to do it . ... let me tell you you are right on the money with this exercise , well explained and demonstrated !! As you said sometime a machine can not do for a number of reason ,so having hand skills comes very useful
Nice! Thank you Sir!
I made a dye for my bead roller that pinched the wire in after it was installed it seemed to work pretty good
@@glennbevan8743 i have tooling for my lennox the issue is the size of this fender
@ I get that running them through a machine would be a two-man job
@ more like a 3-4 man job to support and guide. I am a one man shop so gotta do it how i can
Awesome job on the wire edge. I'm sure your hands and arms are tired after that workout.
Another good tutorial. Thanks.
Also like those makeshift hand tools. Thanks
Excellent tutorial
Makin it look easy as always ... good video ...
Thanks!
Awesome work, Mike
Fantastic Video Mike.
Love the clarity and tips.
Particularly the edge tipping.
Just a tip for those that have the inexpensive bench or pedestal mounted shrinking tool- you can add a handle - (piece of square tube) to the base and the use the normal Handle and then use by hand also.
A little cumbersome but you can do it.
Learned a lot, thank you, glad to see you care about corrosion protection 😀🇺🇸
I could watch Mikes videos and work all day..his explanations are top notch and so easy to follow...Awesome work mate
Thanks! I’m glad you find the videos helpful.
So good to watch you work. Every video gives tips that have an impact on my projects, Thanks Mike
Thanks! I appreciate you watching.
Really nice.
Thank you for your time.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge
Thanks for watching!
Great show to watch
Very cool to see how you do it. And the tools you fab by yourself. 💪🤙
What an incredible amount of work!
Very,very nice job on that wire edge
Great video thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Thanks for watching!
Tremendous video, old world craftsmanship, nice background music especially for an old mechanic
Appreciate that!
Fantastic job!
Nicely done!
Thanks
Thank you for this detailed and most helpful video. This is exactly the sort of instruction that shade tree guys like me need to develop our skills. Great stuff! Also, if it's possible to do so, can you include in a future video a picture of that giant fender in its new home?
maybe but probably not
Fascinating process, done expertly, thanks for showing all the details
Really enjoyed watching the process! That fender is impressive! Just curious about how many hours it takes to build a Mack truck fender from scratch. Thanks Mike.
Amazing dude. Your top notch
You could also cut down and taper that tipping tool at the other end to a smaller size.
So you have two sizes on on tool...👍
Good Video Mike.
Thanks for watching!
Beautiful craftsmanship. You have the patience of Job to do this tedious work.
Thank you very much!
Very good info, Thanks for teaching us the Metal work craft.
Glad I could help!
@cornfieldcustoms you have caused more trouble in my mine.
Watching you do it so easy, gets my ambition in gear.
form and function , the devils in the detail thanks for sharing
The details 😎 thanks Mike
Impressive work and as always your attention to detail.
Thank you!
Awe inspiring. Love the quality and finish.
Nice Work.
Hands down, best wire edging video I've ever seen. Patience no doubt! Curious...from scribe to finished wire edges...8 hours?
as many as it takes
Super usefull video , great !!!! Thanks
Happy to see a new post. You gotta show me that ecotec though still 😉
check our newest live!
Nice work. Looks very time consuming and laborious.
It is, but nothing in metal shaping is fast and easy
13:15 Master Mike i wonder when shrinking this flange in a bend , what is happening to the metal on the other side of the edge 13:45 ? Is it shrinking too? I mean the first inch of metal on the other side of the edge.
I've made a light crown dome in a 25 cm diameter circle sheet metal. Used only hammer and dolly , stump and soft faced hammer. Then i've made 1cm flange all around. I've shrinked the flange all around, it was a lot of beating on the stump. But it seems i have a defect all around the perimeter of the dome circle close to the edge where the flange bend starts. It looks like its dipped and lowered all around the perimeter , rather having the light crown i've made in the beginning. And only at the very outer perimeter. I must blend it somehow. Now if you look it from the side it looks domed but just before the edge it dipped and looks flat, just before the edge of the flange. Maybe i should stretch all the perimerer in order for it to flow again with the overall crown. I hope it needs stretching and not shrinking.
Thanks for sharing your skills, I really enjoy watching your video's
Glad you like them!
As always, very nice work.
Appreciate it.
How can you keep it from rusting in the back where the wire is? When its all said and done ???
@@charlescox6608 did you watch the video? I applied primer to the wire and inside the J channel before finishing the wire work
Very nice work.
Thanks.
I'd love to see how you use the pullmax to turn a wire edge !
This fender was too big or I would have!
Great work.
If wanting to fold the edge around a 3&16" bar, why not have a radius that matches the 3/16" bar, or slightly smaller to compensate for spring back, on the tipping tool, instead of a quite sharp edge as you have?
@@ChevaTomme did the final product in the video turn out with the proper wired edge?
Beautiful work I want to try this on my car how many hours did it take you to edge that fender?
It takes as long as it takes
Thanks
Thanks for watching!
What model mack is that for. Looks like an Lmodel to me
@@williamwertman24 no clue, I just bend the metal
@cornfieldcustoms was just curious, ive got a b model myself.
Prime example of no matter the skill.. u have to have patience. Id say the skill and machines many times help speed up productivity.. make it 10 times faster then someone with my time and skill would take.. kinda work if u try to rush it.. mess it up.end up more time if habe to go back to fix mess up fro. Trying to rush
This video was sped up for time factor but curious what was the actual time doing this edge?
as long as it takes
nice how that is done thanks
Thank you too!
At ~7 minutes in, is there a reason why you don't directly multiply by 0.85 to get the 15% removed? I'm thinking that'd save a step and not have to write/remember more numbers. :)
That fender is absolutely insane by the way, hoping I can ever get that good.
because i suck with math
In the words of Scott Knight, "There's always hand work".
You have a lot of patience I know this is time comsuming
When you make square bar bender, i think you should try flat bar with two small bearings. This way you can bend edge pretty easily. Like in this video th-cam.com/video/nYP4CAlugKo/w-d-xo.htmlsi=nU6YgmdXtkM7n3Vf
@@013chopper the video he is using super thin tin and you can see him struggling to use it and doesnt do a good job. This material is much thicker and the edge needs to be on point
th-cam.com/video/ZNp_-bnwMRc/w-d-xo.htmlsi=3YasMpqIBisEKlAS what about this from Cass
@@duesenberg1000 its an option, I went with the tried and true since i needed to get this one done and not waste time
Developing a tool
... locals at the body shop told my dad this was SO STUPID 40 years ago ....
@@jackreacher. sounds like the local body shop was stupid
@@cornfieldcustoms ... dad said, "shut up and do it", ...
I know your phone password
cool
Sorry but that's not how you calculate the bend length. You need to find the cord length. Aluminium has the meridan line as near as makes no odds in the centre of the material. Therefore in a full circle you would add 1 material thickness to the inside diameter and multiply by pi. It's probably not important in hammering over a wing. But if you were trying to roll a tube accurately it would be critical.
@@iiredeyeiiredeye1569 im sorry but this is how i do it and guess what it worked as intended. Your also always on here flapping your gums how wrong I am so no reason to listen to anything you have to say