GOOD POINT FITZEE....When you stitch or Pulse weld. You need the heat setting higher. Because when you run a bead it heats up as you weld more. You want your heat high enough to pulse short time periods and penetrate.
Big praises man...on pretty much every one of your videos, there is a moment where I say, "Fitzee's a genius!" This time it was when you cut the two slots one each side and then put them in the vice and raised the left and right sides. As soon as I saw that in the vice, I knew your plan...genius!
Thank you Tony for sharing all of your wonderful skills and ideas! You are definitely inspiring, and give not only me but thousands of people the ambition and courage to tackle these projects. I’m in Ontario, but with these videos you feel like a neighbour. Keep it up! I’ll stick around!
TRUE I always think about grinding whenever i am doing a repair. Inside corners are the toughest. I try to avoid welding in them VIA Bending lapping. anything I can do not to need to grind an inside corner. Makes life much easier.
Looks like it came that way from the Factory ... Nice work, Tony.... I too hate grinding,, But I’m a better Grinder, than I am Welder... lol Thanks for the tips....
I absolutely love your patience and the way you take time to explain everything. I bought a a 2000 s10 79,000 kms never seen a snowflake and when the time comes to do custom work your mentoring will be invaluable. Thanks
After a few minutes of watching your videos a smile appears on my face..... just pure pleasure and an honor to witness your skill with metal unfold before my eyes.... thank you !
I reckon you've struck the TH-cam magic formula for diy rust repairs Tony. Time is free when it's your hobby but mega dollar fabrication tools aren't. Plus you need a massive shed to store them. Love your workmanship and your presentation style. Thanks for sharing.
Am guessing some may see you as a "Lazy hacker", especially after watching your two-part "Quarter Panel" replacement video However you. offer an alternative which I have yet to see anywhere else on this or any other platform. Real-world solutions using tools and materials procured from "Crappy Tire" or Princess Auto.. Tin fabrication by hand is all that many of us can afford to do., your video on "Gasless Mig Welding" was gratefully accepted as my welder is a 120v Jobmate from good, old CTC. Replacing ONLY the rusted portions of the quarters absolutely made the most sense - provided lots of extra tin for fabrication as well!! Many thanks to the "Man from the Rock" from another "Tin Bender" to your West! (Reality dictates you don't have much to your EAST)
Tony you're truly AMAZING!!!! I don't think there's anything you can't do! Over the winter months I think I'm going to start playing more with my welder! and I just bought a plasma cutter. Thanks for making everything look so, so easy!!!
Great job... once again Mr .Fitzee... I enjoy yourself ...,and your videos that you give us. Thank you all so much!!!.... Your training me to be more confident in myself... and my big tackle with my 68 Impala fastback... ty!
I really appreciate your video editing. You show us all your work, every time. I often wonder how you're going to achieve something, it's great to see and hear how each step takes place.
Another awesome video. It’s amazing what can be done when you don’t over think it lol. Thanks for taking the time to put this content out here. I get re inspired with every video.
Thank you for that video. you truly inspire me to Try and do the sheet metal work to my 70 Monte Carlo myself. Please keep making videos and inspiring people
Love this one. Exactly what I want to do on my NOVA project. Giving me some more insight and inspiring me to move forward with the custom work. Always look forward to your next newest video, Thanks for sharing, You are definitely a master in this stuff.
Tony good job! it's always a learning curve watching others do similar things I can do or have done! when I was in trade school before I got in the Sheet Metal trade the instructor used to say "When you know every thing there is to know about Sheet Metal, its time to go meet the Big Tinner!" he was not wrong there! keep up the good work!
That was a fantastic rolled panel! I love the way you broke it down into small manageable pieces. As if joining the two panels weren't enough, you put that really cool Indented piece in the middle. You could probably put a light on it as well. It looks like it came from the factory, it's that good.
Several times I have needed tinsmith jobs on my cars and I have never met a tinsmith who has the patience and skills you have to carve metal with solder and sanders, your work is truly admirable.
It would look like a difficult job few months before I found your channel. You are showing us how easily things can be made. Thank you for teaching me how to think about the job to do it easily and even encouraging me to start these "more advanced" sheet metal jobs. I always look forward to see any new video from you.
Hey Tony, that is a really cool way to make the indent/recess in the top of the panel. I’m modifying a bumper and was pondering how to do something similar for the license plate cavity, and what you have shown is so much simpler than some of the ideas I have had and already discarded. Keep up the awesome work man!
Thanks for another look into the master’s mind. Great advice, don’t get too far ahead of yourself before you clean and buff. I’ve a couple projects I’ve got started so far down the road it’s a chore to go back and finish it up. Makes you tend to give up all together or finish up half a$$ed. Thanks for instilling that idea.
I just enrolled in a MIG welding class that starts in January. So keep them videos coming. Im going to trade my 100 weldpak for a 140 weldpak with small gas tank like you have. I really appreciate you sharing your knowledge.
I like how you matched, The drop down relief, at the bottom center of the truck bed. When I get to shapes like that “I imagine how I would make both the drop down and the relief”, that way you look at it with too much metal and not enough metal. That way you come up with cool ideas, but write them down or take pictures because it is easy to forget good ideas, I did 2 Mustang fast backs and I forgot the tricks I used on the first one. They both looked the same but the process was different, nothing wrong with that, lots of ways to do the same thing.
Sometimes when explaining what you’re going to do I’m like how is that going to work, then you show how you do it and in like ohhhh, that’s how! Really enjoy your process. Thanks for the content.
I like the way you make the panels bigger then trim them down after, I think I will try to use that tip next time, I always seem to take too long trying to make things fit perfect on the first go then have to remake the piece if it turns out too small or the wrong shape.
Putting some of your tips to good work. I’m restoring my dad‘s old 1930 model A Tudor. The bottom 4 inches of the car is gone all the way around. One piece at a time, thanks for the tips.
I thought when you started this it was going to end up looking like.. well, you know what I'm getting at. But it came out really nice. You are a true professional when it comes to your work. I do believe that you could design and build a one of a kind body. Oh, there you go, do that.
Another gem of a video!!!👌👌👌 I find your solutions incredibly ingenious and yet so simple!! Thank you so much for imparting your knowledge!! Looking forward to the next video!!👍👍👍
Fitzee, I hope you and all your loved ones have a fantastic Christmas break and COVID free New Year. Stay safe. Keep up the fantastic down to earth instructions. Best wishes from Australia.
Thank for your informative and resourceful videos. I`m an old swedish guy that many years ago worked as an professional sheet metal worker and beside that my whole life been reparing old cars that I saved from the junkyard. I`m a member of a group on Facebook where both professionals and amateurs are members and I have shared many of your videos there, which have been much appreciated. Keep up the good work!👍
Love your videos. I’ve learned a LOT from you and you’ve given me the confidence to start doing the sheet metal work on my 64 GTO myself - so far, so good. I especially like the fact that you use simple tools - since that’s what many of us doing this as a hobby are stuck with. One thing I’d really like to see is an example of what the back side of a good weld on sheet metal should look like. Any I’ve seen so far happen so fast and from such a distance that we don’t get a really good look at it.
Great job Fitzee. I have a bumper that I need to modify for the license plate. Watching you has given me the inspiration and know how, to get it done. Thank you, very much appreciated . Merry Christmas to you 🌲
Tony, very informative video loved the rolled edge section with that offset lip you worked through. And the license plate box turned out awesome. Enjoyed the Datsun pickup project. Have a Merry Christmas!!
Love the way you say "all I did was" and then show us some genius way to make the impossible simple.
GOOD POINT FITZEE....When you stitch or Pulse weld. You need the heat setting higher. Because when you run a bead it heats up as you weld more. You want your heat high enough to pulse short time periods and penetrate.
Big praises man...on pretty much every one of your videos, there is a moment where I say, "Fitzee's a genius!" This time it was when you cut the two slots one each side and then put them in the vice and raised the left and right sides. As soon as I saw that in the vice, I knew your plan...genius!
Hi Tony! Glad I stuck around. Watching you create works of art with simple tools inspires me to do more. Thanks for sharing!
Enjoy watching someone that understands what they are doing!
Thank you Tony for sharing all of your wonderful skills and ideas! You are definitely inspiring, and give not only me but thousands of people the ambition and courage to tackle these projects. I’m in Ontario, but with these videos you feel like a neighbour. Keep it up! I’ll stick around!
This is a good example of why experience is way more important than training or studying.
Thank you very much. In the past, I asked a friend to build the lic plate space; now I will be able to do it myself. You are a great teacher.
That's got to be the sexiest tailpan to ever grace the tail end of a Datsun truck ever, beautiful work as always Tony 😍 👏
Roll the edge, cut a relief line and bend the rolled edge to match the bed above. Weld in a filler wedge. Brilliant solutions!
TRUE I always think about grinding whenever i am doing a repair. Inside corners are the toughest. I try to avoid welding in them VIA Bending lapping. anything I can do not to need to grind an inside corner. Makes life much easier.
Hi Toni, nothing fancy but it looks great! Thanks for taking us step by step how to fix it. Nice vid again. 😉
Beautiful job , can't wait for that little Crusty project .
Looks like it came that way from the Factory ... Nice work, Tony....
I too hate grinding,, But I’m a better Grinder, than I am Welder... lol
Thanks for the tips....
Been bing watching your videos. Watched enough to start seeing the individual parts to a complicated patch panel.
For this I say *THANKS YOU!*
My background is cabinet making, its a different mind set with metal. You are helping me make the transition. Thank you.
Very nice work . Keep on teaching your followers.👍🇨🇦
Fantastic job. Looks Factory. I've got to revisit your welding tutorials.
Your talent never ceases to amaze me. Complex broken into basic components. Props sir!!
I absolutely love your patience and the way you take time to explain everything. I bought a a 2000 s10 79,000 kms never seen a snowflake and when the time comes to do custom work your mentoring will be invaluable. Thanks
Thanks again Fitzee for sharing your techniques and working styles.
After a few minutes of watching your videos a smile appears on my face..... just pure pleasure and an honor to witness your skill with metal unfold before my eyes.... thank you !
Man that turned out really good Fitzee! Cheers, Doug
I reckon you've struck the TH-cam magic formula for diy rust repairs Tony. Time is free when it's your hobby but mega dollar fabrication tools aren't. Plus you need a massive shed to store them. Love your workmanship and your presentation style. Thanks for sharing.
I love watching you restore vehicles. I have learned so much!
Thank you Fitzee...Very detailed. Awesome work. From South Africa
Thanks for the education, and I hope that you are keeping warm.
You are a hell of a fabricator. Excellent work. Detail makes all the difference.
Absolutely love how you teach sir. Need more teachers like you.
I concur. An excellent Teacher!
Nice job Fitzee. Great work on editing.
A , love the seams 💯%, You are a grand fabrication king , bless you and thee 1952 Chevy Deluxe
Tony you are a genius. I like your work and your sense of resourcefulness. Thank you for sharing .🤝🏆🙋🏻♂️
Am guessing some may see you as a "Lazy hacker", especially after watching your two-part "Quarter Panel" replacement video However you. offer an alternative which I have yet to see anywhere else on this or any other platform. Real-world solutions using tools and materials procured from "Crappy Tire" or Princess Auto.. Tin fabrication by hand is all that many of us can afford to do., your video on "Gasless Mig Welding" was gratefully accepted as my welder is a 120v Jobmate from good, old CTC. Replacing ONLY the rusted portions of the quarters absolutely made the most sense - provided lots of extra tin for fabrication as well!! Many thanks to the "Man from the Rock" from another "Tin Bender" to your West! (Reality dictates you don't have much to your EAST)
Tony you're truly AMAZING!!!! I don't think there's anything you can't do! Over the winter months I think I'm going to start playing more with my welder! and I just bought a plasma cutter. Thanks for making everything look so, so easy!!!
Great job... once again Mr .Fitzee... I enjoy yourself ...,and your videos that you give us. Thank you all so much!!!.... Your training me to be more confident in myself... and my big tackle with my 68 Impala fastback... ty!
I really appreciate your video editing. You show us all your work, every time. I often wonder how you're going to achieve something, it's great to see and hear how each step takes place.
Another awesome video. It’s amazing what can be done when you don’t over think it lol. Thanks for taking the time to put this content out here. I get re inspired with every video.
Another video of brilliant techniques. Thank you.
Thank you for that video. you truly inspire me to Try and do the sheet metal work to my 70 Monte Carlo myself. Please keep making videos and inspiring people
Awesome job as always Tony. I would have never figured out how to make that area over the license plate box. Thanks for posting!
brilliant work well explained
I watch every video
excellent tips
Thx for the tip and trick of using the edge of the bed to find the correct angle for the license plate indent. It was so simple.
Top notch as always. Happy as hell to see someone on this side of the country doing this work on TH-cam. Keep it up.
Great idea for a custom dashboard.
Cheers to Fitzee. 🍻
Happy holidays. 🎁🎉🎊🎄
Nice finish of how the roll pan looks as if a factory stamping, like those crisp straight lines. Will be using your ideas. Thanks
Love this one. Exactly what I want to do on my NOVA project. Giving me some more insight and inspiring me to move forward with the custom work. Always look forward to your next newest video, Thanks for sharing, You are definitely a master in this stuff.
Tony good job! it's always a learning curve watching others do similar things I can do or have done!
when I was in trade school before I got in the Sheet Metal trade the instructor used to say
"When you know every thing there is to know about Sheet Metal, its time to go meet the Big Tinner!"
he was not wrong there! keep up the good work!
I love how simple it is through your eyes!
That was a fantastic rolled panel! I love the way you broke it down into small manageable pieces. As if joining the two panels weren't enough, you put that really cool Indented piece in the middle. You could probably put a light on it as well. It looks like it came from the factory, it's that good.
Wow! the tips were way good Fitz! Thanks!!!
Several times I have needed tinsmith jobs on my cars and I have never met a tinsmith who has the patience and skills you have to carve metal with solder and sanders, your work is truly admirable.
I wish I could be there in your garage to teach me metal fab firsthand, thanks Tony
This is closest style to what I am wanting to make for my 99 silverado. Thank you for sharing
It would look like a difficult job few months before I found your channel. You are showing us how easily things can be made. Thank you for teaching me how to think about the job to do it easily and even encouraging me to start these "more advanced" sheet metal jobs. I always look forward to see any new video from you.
Hey Tony, that is a really cool way to make the indent/recess in the top of the panel. I’m modifying a bumper and was pondering how to do something similar for the license plate cavity, and what you have shown is so much simpler than some of the ideas I have had and already discarded.
Keep up the awesome work man!
You can learn to weld in about an hour. Then spend the rest of your life perfecting it.
👍👍👍👍
Very nice work sir!! Looks great!!
Great work. Your skill plus instructional method is great to watch.
Awesome job … enjoy watching your videos
Did guy should be long remembered when he’s gone!
Another great teaching video. You are a great teacher and you show us how to simplify what you do. Have a merry christmas.
Very nice job! Keep them coming!
i really enjoy watching your video's and im learning alot
As usual, I learned some valuable information. It looks just like factory. Thanks!
Thanks for another look into the master’s mind. Great advice, don’t get too far ahead of yourself before you clean and buff. I’ve a couple projects I’ve got started so far down the road it’s a chore to go back and finish it up. Makes you tend to give up all together or finish up half a$$ed. Thanks for instilling that idea.
Awesome work Tony 👍
Awesome work Fitzee! I would love to see some followups for your work after they've been filled and painted!
I just enrolled in a MIG welding class that starts in January. So keep them videos coming. Im going to trade my 100 weldpak for a 140 weldpak with small gas tank like you have. I really appreciate you sharing your knowledge.
Always fun to watch the master work. Good work
Another awesome looking job might have to try this on one of mine thanks again fitzee
That's some really nice work. Thanks for doing these videos!
Looking good Tony!
Thanks again for the knowledge love watching you seem like I need to stop making it hard on myself. Looks good
Very Nice work. Working with what you have. Dad always said. Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without. Merry Christmas!
I like how you matched, The drop down relief, at the bottom center of the truck bed. When I get to shapes like that “I imagine how I would make both the drop down and the relief”, that way you look at it with too much metal and not enough metal. That way you come up with cool ideas, but write them down or take pictures because it is easy to forget good ideas, I did 2 Mustang fast backs and I forgot the tricks I used on the first one. They both looked the same but the process was different, nothing wrong with that, lots of ways to do the same thing.
Looks great, love how you made the top rolled edge line up, so simple and very effective.
Sometimes when explaining what you’re going to do I’m like how is that going to work, then you show how you do it and in like ohhhh, that’s how! Really enjoy your process. Thanks for the content.
''GREAT" work on that roll pan!!! You make it look so simple!!! Merry Christmas
I like the way you make the panels bigger then trim them down after, I think I will try to use that tip next time, I always seem to take too long trying to make things fit perfect on the first go then have to remake the piece if it turns out too small or the wrong shape.
Lovely work!
I'm picking up what you are laying down. Nice work.
Beautiful work Tony! Learned a lot!
the way you made that raised section (pure genius)
Putting some of your tips to good work. I’m restoring my dad‘s old 1930 model A Tudor. The bottom 4 inches of the car is gone all the way around. One piece at a time, thanks for the tips.
I thought when you started this it was going to end up looking like.. well, you know what I'm getting at. But it came out really nice. You are a true professional when it comes to your work. I do believe that you could design and build a one of a kind body. Oh, there you go, do that.
One of many dreams. Lol
Another gem of a video!!!👌👌👌
I find your solutions incredibly ingenious and yet so simple!!
Thank you so much for imparting your knowledge!!
Looking forward to the next video!!👍👍👍
Fitzee, I hope you and all your loved ones have a fantastic Christmas break and COVID free New Year. Stay safe.
Keep up the fantastic down to earth instructions. Best wishes from Australia.
I love this. As easy as always. Good episode and nice result.
Nice job Fitz.. that’s tidy !
Thank for your informative and resourceful videos. I`m an old swedish guy that many years ago worked as an professional sheet metal worker and beside that my whole life been reparing old cars that I saved from the junkyard. I`m a member of a group on Facebook where both professionals and amateurs are members and I have shared many of your videos there, which have been much appreciated. Keep up the good work!👍
Nice work tony. Thank you for showing us all the depth of your years of experience
Incredible job! I almost fall in love!
Nice Work ! Little by Little Thanks !
Genius, the way you do those dog legs is genius. Love the frenched in panel too. A very inspirational video, thanks again.
FYI....FILLER wont STICK to BRASS.....That is why I always remove it.
Love your videos. I’ve learned a LOT from you and you’ve given me the confidence to start doing the sheet metal work on my 64 GTO myself - so far, so good. I especially like the fact that you use simple tools - since that’s what many of us doing this as a hobby are stuck with. One thing I’d really like to see is an example of what the back side of a good weld on sheet metal should look like. Any I’ve seen so far happen so fast and from such a distance that we don’t get a really good look at it.
Parabéns amigo pelas palavras aí boa sorte no seu projeto dá uma olhadinha lá no meus produtos também
as always, tips are great, and your timing is excellent for my own roll pan
Great job Fitzee. I have a bumper that I need to modify for the license plate. Watching you has given me the inspiration and know how, to get it done. Thank you, very much appreciated . Merry Christmas to you 🌲
Wow, what a great Idee!! With the numberplate awesome
Tony, very informative video loved the rolled edge section with that offset lip you worked through. And the license plate box turned out awesome. Enjoyed the Datsun pickup project. Have a Merry Christmas!!
That was cool. Great tips brother