I've never seen paper show so much with regard to the stretching and shrinking that has to be done to move the metal into its proper position, you illustrate it very effective between the layout and the actual fitment. I've never had the time to actually watch the sheet metal come to fit the space it's got to fill. You are a great teacher!
Meant to be heading out to work tonight for 5 days. Having watched this episode now just want to go back to my garage/workshop and beat metal ir weld stuff up.
I have wanted to write but I don't want to take time out of your busy schedule having to read all this. Yet I feel a desire to tell you the effect it has on me watching you work. There is much I want to sat yet I feel at a loss for words but I will try. I have watch most of your videos but have no desire to flatter, but your varied talents such as making videos and teaching/instructing while you work on a project require more than most may think. Also your acquired knowledge in metal work blow me away. I have watched Wray Schelin's work and another fellow, I think his name is Lazy with great interest. And then there is Rat Rod BOB who I cannot help but love. As for myself, I have been making stuff out of wood and metal all my life and have a small reputation for creativity, but the A pillar skin you made, I would have just ended up with a steel potato chip. These inner pieces of the radiator cowling, in fact the whole thing cause me to remember how most of my adult life I have wanted to build an old classic car from scratch, with a long hood and graceful long fenders with huge headlights and a gorgeous radiator, but it has only been a fantasy. Yet now, looking at your work on the Model A (one of my first cars and a daily driver in college) and the Zephyr shows me what is truly possibleI. I had no idea that there was such a thing as an English wheel, shrinker/stretcher or a bead roller until my late 60's. Only a few years ago was I privileged to actually use those machines, but I feel so inept when I watch you work. Knowing what needs to happen next while making such complicated pieces leaves me in awe. Watching you, Wray or Lazy pop out such complicated pieces goes deep in me. Yet there is something about your way of teaching that is finally beginning to click for me. My first wife was Korean and you put me in mind of my own son so in that way I also feel a little bit of a bond. So I admire and envy your youth and advanced skills that you can make a living while still young doing something that I would have loved to do for a life occupation. And by the way it is nice to see someone in your line of work who doesn't loose it when a mistake is made, with a lot of beeps in the audio like the fellas over at Orange County Chopper. May you continue to prosper Karl, you're a great kid.
I absolutely love the content You're making brotha. I almost always learn something new, and cannot wait for the day I've got enough shop space to tackle some of the projects I've been dreaming of, with the skills I'm less and less afraid to try.
Im a Maintenance Plumber / Roofer about 30 years ago when I was enthusiastic about life, I was working for a 90year old retired sheetmetal worker who was in need of care, his house and garage were full of templates from decades of 19th & 20th century Architectural work. I tried contacting his carers to buy this amazing collection of work and tools,, a few weeks later to my horror, the house and contents had been demolished. Every time I make a template I think of that Man. Karl I hope you are archiving all the templates you make
Very good explanation as to what it is that you are doing. Love the way the grill is looking; I also like the clock in the background during fast motion we can see the time spend on a shape.
The pure talent is beyond reason. Sure, I can do everything this guy can do, but the bits I make are obviously made by someone who "just gets by". NO WAY will what I make ever be this good, no matter how hard I try.
Wow! You just showed me how to manipulate a metal piece I am building for a filler neck cover that will flow into the interior trunk tail light covers on my Cougar that I already built. Thanks for taking the time to show all of us the tricks of the trade!
man your amazing i have watched almost everything you have made im a driveline tech with trophy rat under my belt as well as others about a year ago i went on my own and ended up as a part of a hot rod shop customizing bad ass vehicles and your videos have been the best insperation in my life thank you so much for your creativity being shared im in awe driveshafter driveshafts
Your videos have inspired me; I’ve started my first restoration project! Thanks for breaking things down to the point where I know I can do it! Cheers from Canada.
Karl it's good to see a new video today. It's looking really good so far. Very nicely explaining video and showing this amazing craft and craftsmanship you have. Can't wait to see more videos soon sir. Keep up the great craftsmanship and hard work my friend. Fab On. Weld On. Keep Making. God Bless.
The rolling an edge to meet up with another slightly rolled edge reminded me of the spare wheel well repair I made where I ended up having to do something pretty similar. With much less pretty looking results, but hey it’s under the car! Made me think, I’d be really interested to see how you would’ve tackled the same shape. Anyway, the grille design looks really cool, and the execution too!
You've inspired me mate ex painter beater started a resto on y sons car shaping and making panels love your work and talent mate thanks for the videos 👍🏽🍻
Thanks, like what your doing . This gets me out of my chair and makes me want to do something. I have a couple car projects that I’ve had for years . Thinking they would be good retirement projects. Now that I’m at that age my interest has changed. These videos are getting me motivated to do something with these cars. Thank you.
You and my job are going to get me in so much trouble! Already started making my own aluminum undertail for my gsxr1k lol. I also work at a chassis shop as a do boy but damnit i wanna learn!
Love how the split grille is coming on, and apart from "the cheapest shrinker/stretcher", all with tools that most car people would have. (I think the Duvall-style windshield is cast - wonder how a cast split grille centrepiece would look?) Cheers from Sunny Queensland where it is the middle of winter and only 6 degrees C - 43 degrees F!!
Oh yeah baby bead roll 😂 love it lol , you are an extremely talented metal worker Carl. I guess the real difficulty is getting both sides to look the same …loving these videos I’ve learned such a lot just need to practice now and see if I can do this type of thing I’m certainly gonna have a go cheers dude 👍
Karl, I recently witnessed something that got my full attention. They used the needle scaler to shape a piece of metal in a tight curve on the rig itself to get the outline of these adjoining metals. They were going from fender at the lowest corner near the running board and body panel... I really need pencil and paper to show exactly how but rather than they cut any metal... part followed the line of the body and part followed the drop of the fender down to the running board. Meaning you have part following shape of lower fender and part where it folds down to the frame that is getting covered. It was clamped to hold it in place for the initial bends... kind of forming a "Z" for part of it, part following back along side of the frame, and the rest going up like the fender would do. I know all of this sounds confusing.. I am befuddled on just how to explain it. Think like the radius that you just did on the grill coming around plus part forming to the insides and then the tail of it going down. I can see it working on something like the inside of a door where you have compound forms in the bottom corners and multiple shapes.... like what you would normally use a bead roller for. I wish I remembered the link to where I seen it as visual is so much easier.. good show today
I've never seen paper show so much with regard to the stretching and shrinking that has to be done to move the metal into its proper position, you illustrate it very effective between the layout and the actual fitment. I've never had the time to actually watch the sheet metal come to fit the space it's got to fill. You are a great teacher!
The sexy "Awe yeah Baby, Bead Rolling" in the background music had me rollin!! 😂😂😂
It's a good day when you wake up and find a new Make It Kustom vid in your feed. Cheers man.
Cheers!
Agreed!!🎉
Your attention to detail is why I love your work.
I enjoy watching you do this as well as watching the clock in some to shots to see time! Keep up the great work
Meant to be heading out to work tonight for 5 days. Having watched this episode now just want to go back to my garage/workshop and beat metal ir weld stuff up.
Hey Elio got a haircut! Looks good. Great video as always. Great combination of shrinking and stretching.
Best 30 minutes of my night Thanks Karl !👍👍👍👍👍
Love the tutorial! Still waiting on the bomber seat dxfs...
Great work Karl. You are getting to the quality of a coach builder. Very impressive. Can't wait to see the final product.
Thanks so much man !
Great job Karl, looking very good
Great job Karl Looking good
Fantastic workmanship and teaching Karl, if all teachers were like you we'd all be geniuses. Thank you!
Awesome
Aaaah nice. So intriguing to watch. Thanks!
An artist sculpting in metal. I love that bit of a brow look
I have wanted to write but I don't want to take time out of your busy schedule having to read all this. Yet I feel a desire to tell you the effect it has on me watching you work. There is much I want to sat yet I feel at a loss for words but I will try. I have watch most of your videos but have no desire to flatter, but your varied talents such as making videos and teaching/instructing while you work on a project require more than most may think. Also your acquired knowledge in metal work blow me away. I have watched Wray Schelin's work and another fellow, I think his name is Lazy with great interest. And then there is Rat Rod BOB who I cannot help but love. As for myself, I have been making stuff out of wood and metal all my life and have a small reputation for creativity, but the A pillar skin you made, I would have just ended up with a steel potato chip. These inner pieces of the radiator cowling, in fact the whole thing cause me to remember how most of my adult life I have wanted to build an old classic car from scratch, with a long hood and graceful long fenders with huge headlights and a gorgeous radiator, but it has only been a fantasy. Yet now, looking at your work on the Model A (one of my first cars and a daily driver in college) and the Zephyr shows me what is truly possibleI. I had no idea that there was such a thing as an English wheel, shrinker/stretcher or a bead roller until my late 60's. Only a few years ago was I privileged to actually use those machines, but I feel so inept when I watch you work. Knowing what needs to happen next while making such complicated pieces leaves me in awe. Watching you, Wray or Lazy pop out such complicated pieces goes deep in me. Yet there is something about your way of teaching that is finally beginning to click for me. My first wife was Korean and you put me in mind of my own son so in that way I also feel a little bit of a bond. So I admire and envy your youth and advanced skills that you can make a living while still young doing something that I would have loved to do for a life occupation. And by the way it is nice to see someone in your line of work who doesn't loose it when a mistake is made, with a lot of beeps in the audio like the fellas over at Orange County Chopper. May you continue to prosper Karl, you're a great kid.
Great stuff boss. Ready for the tig weld process. Bring it on!
Awesome watching these metal fabrication video,s learn so much keep them coming
Bill Hervey Bay Qeensland Australia
I love that a guy in a garage can do this stuff. You don't need some giant press that can stamp it out all at once. 👍👍
Thanks for sharing! Always interesting, thank you!
Amazing head scratching work Karl ! 👊🏻 See ya Sunday ?
Thanks man ! Getting there!
Amazing work 🙂
Another very informative video from a experienced metal shaper.
Ahhhh Yeahhh Baby, BEAD ROLL!
Great information and quality craftsmanship every time.
Keep ‘em coming Karl , look foreword to all of your videos, thank you .
I love your attention to detail. You are truly an artist, sir
I don't see how you do it! Your eye and workmanship are outstanding.
Every shop needs a shop dog....great show. Thanks for all the help.
This is looking great !!!
Great design. Can't wait to see the final result. Sorta reminds me of a Gladiator helmet.👌👌👌
Looks great, Karl, as usual. The bodyworking aspect of hot rodding is in good hands.!
Love watching your videos.
I absolutely love the content You're making brotha. I almost always learn something new, and cannot wait for the day I've got enough shop space to tackle some of the projects I've been dreaming of, with the skills I'm less and less afraid to try.
Im a Maintenance Plumber / Roofer about 30 years ago when I was enthusiastic about life, I was working for a 90year old retired sheetmetal worker who was in need of care, his house and garage were full of templates from decades of 19th & 20th century Architectural work. I tried contacting his carers to buy this amazing collection of work and tools,, a few weeks later to my horror, the house and contents had been demolished. Every time I make a template I think of that Man. Karl I hope you are archiving all the templates you make
Man that’s so sad!!!
great job carl, they sure picked the right man for that job
Just what I needed Karl. I have to make a flat-tank for a 1926 motorbike. I'm 78 but your videos are so easy to follow, appreciate them
Awesome Derek!!!
Nice job Karl, lovely precision work. Well done.
I'm intrigued by the Softail in the background! 🤘😎🤘
Karl I enjoy seeing your quality workmanship. Remember you cannot please everyone. Love your content and unique explanation.
Looking real good! Keep these videos coming. Aloha🤙🏼
Super job !!!
Awesome work as usual. Always appreciate your efforts.
I got my Mother Tucker/stump from you in Vegas. I will be practicing on it this weekend.
Right on Matt glad ya went home with one!
Very good explanation as to what it is that you are doing. Love the way the grill is looking; I also like the clock in the background during fast motion we can see the time spend on a shape.
"metal takes direction from you" very profound. You are truly talented Carl. Keep up the awesome work cant wait to see it completed
The pure talent is beyond reason. Sure, I can do everything this guy can do, but the bits I make are obviously made by someone who "just gets by". NO WAY will what I make ever be this good, no matter how hard I try.
Wow! You just showed me how to manipulate a metal piece I am building for a filler neck cover that will flow into the interior trunk tail light covers on my Cougar that I already built. Thanks for taking the time to show all of us the tricks of the trade!
man your amazing i have watched almost everything you have made im a driveline tech with trophy rat under my belt as well as others about a year ago i went on my own and ended up as a part of a hot rod shop customizing bad ass vehicles and your videos have been the best insperation in my life thank you so much for your creativity being shared im in awe driveshafter driveshafts
Great looking grill buddy pure genious watching you work
That grill is amazing mate.
good job man 👍💪
Your videos have inspired me; I’ve started my first restoration project!
Thanks for breaking things down to the point where I know I can do it!
Cheers from Canada.
Karl it's good to see a new video today. It's looking really good so far. Very nicely explaining video and showing this amazing craft and craftsmanship you have. Can't wait to see more videos soon sir. Keep up the great craftsmanship and hard work my friend. Fab On. Weld On. Keep Making. God Bless.
I fab a lot of stuff for my car. It is incredibly time consuming and tedious. The end result makes it all worth it. As always, great job on this!
Thank You Karl for sharing your skills with us.👍👍❤
your the man Carl Fisher, figured out how to shape my rust repair panels now
You are amazing Karl.
My new favorite project series! Good show!
The rolling an edge to meet up with another slightly rolled edge reminded me of the spare wheel well repair I made where I ended up having to do something pretty similar. With much less pretty looking results, but hey it’s under the car! Made me think, I’d be really interested to see how you would’ve tackled the same shape.
Anyway, the grille design looks really cool, and the execution too!
Another great video explaining the process. Amazing what you can do with really only a few hand tools.
Looks awesome Karl.
Watching in from Greece this week.
Back in Italy next week then back to Greece 12 July before going back home to Aus 28 July.
You've inspired me mate ex painter beater started a resto on y sons car shaping and making panels love your work and talent mate thanks for the videos 👍🏽🍻
Thanks, like what your doing . This gets me out of my chair and makes me want to do something. I have a couple car projects that I’ve had for years . Thinking they would be good retirement projects. Now that I’m at that age my interest has changed. These videos are getting me motivated to do something with these cars. Thank you.
You’re so welcome Gordon. Cheers.
Jay the Florida pool pump motor repair guy. When Service Calls Longwood approved ! that was good info 2 see👨🔧good job !! Mike it Kustom
Awesome show as always 😊
Jesteś wysokiej klasy specjalistą 👍pozdrawiam z polski
"Oh Yeah Baby Bead Rolling" Hilarious! Great video as usual!
Hi Karl, I am enjoying these instructive videos, in fact I enjoy all of your videos. Thank you for sharing your talent.
Glad you like them!
Really nice. I think this is going to look great!!
Excellent video very helpful thanks Karl.
Definitely time to go out and get me a shrinker/stretcher! That's the one piece of the puzzle that I'm missing.
Having that tool will open a lot of doors
Mate you are the best teacher. David from oz
Love what you do. I would love to work in that shop there with you.
Happy to see what you do and I'm waiting for the next video...
Bruno from France
За собаку отдельно лайк 😀👍
Awesome video! Paper isnt as forgiving as sheet metal, so creasing / tearing helps with figuring out what it takes to move the metal.
excellent video as always
Your A Sculpter. Making the first one was awsome ,making the second to match ,thats the hard part. Well Done.
Nice work!
You and my job are going to get me in so much trouble! Already started making my own aluminum undertail for my gsxr1k lol. I also work at a chassis shop as a do boy but damnit i wanna learn!
Karl, AMAZING.
Great video !! But Let’s get on that Zephyr brother 🤟
Outstanding work!! Keep the videos coming!
Awesome work,thanks
Great work, I would like to see your design on your shrinker,stretcher stand and how you built it, thanks from the east coast 🏁
Amazing patience
Nice job 😎
Blinding skills & tutorage, thank you.
Nice tips and tricks 👍😊JR in Ontario
"ah yeah baby... bead roller". *saved in my arsenal of dubious pick up lines* 😂
Love how the split grille is coming on, and apart from "the cheapest shrinker/stretcher", all with tools that most car people would have. (I think the Duvall-style windshield is cast - wonder how a cast split grille centrepiece would look?) Cheers from Sunny Queensland where it is the middle of winter and only 6 degrees C - 43 degrees F!!
Thanks Glenn!
Oh yeah baby bead roll 😂 love it lol , you are an extremely talented metal worker Carl. I guess the real difficulty is getting both sides to look the same …loving these videos I’ve learned such a lot just need to practice now and see if I can do this type of thing I’m certainly gonna have a go cheers dude 👍
Lol thanks man the second side is always harder
Fricken Awesome!
Sweet. Thanks for the great vids.
🙏🙏🙏
Best music ever. Oh, and the metalwork's good too. ^_^
Karl, I recently witnessed something that got my full attention. They used the needle scaler to shape a piece of metal in a tight curve on the rig itself to get the outline of these adjoining metals. They were going from fender at the lowest corner near the running board and body panel... I really need pencil and paper to show exactly how but rather than they cut any metal... part followed the line of the body and part followed the drop of the fender down to the running board. Meaning you have part following shape of lower fender and part where it folds down to the frame that is getting covered. It was clamped to hold it in place for the initial bends... kind of forming a "Z" for part of it, part following back along side of the frame, and the rest going up like the fender would do. I know all of this sounds confusing.. I am befuddled on just how to explain it. Think like the radius that you just did on the grill coming around plus part forming to the insides and then the tail of it going down. I can see it working on something like the inside of a door where you have compound forms in the bottom corners and multiple shapes.... like what you would normally use a bead roller for. I wish I remembered the link to where I seen it as visual is so much easier.. good show today
thanks for the inspiration!
Superb!
Great job, greetings form Poland