By Timothy Remus

If you work with automotive, motorcycle or aviation sheet metal don't miss this book! It will save you weeks of frustration and time!

In an age when most products come off an assembly line at the rate of hundreds or thousands per hour an increasing number of individuals yearn to build a fender, hood or side cover by hand.

Whether you're restoring an old Packard, building a unique hot rod, customizing your Harley-Davidson, or trying to keep an old biplane in the air, the parts you require can't be purchased from a catalog.

Eleven chapters cover: Design and Layout, Tools and Materials, and Welding Sheet Metal. Included are Fabrication Sequences with skilled craftsmen like Ron Coven, Steve Davis, Bo Olson and Bob Munroe.

Learn how to:

III Fabricate, weld, shrink

III Pick the right material

III Use hand and power tools

III Use shrinkers and stretchers

III Understand the English Wheel

III Make and use simple tooling

Over 350 photographs document the creation of a motorcycle fender, an automotive fender, part of an airplane cowl, a hot rod deck lid, the body of a pedal car and a blower scoop.

Presented here is the information you need to build your own sheet metal parts from steel or aluminum. From simple hand-work with a hammer and dolly to sophisticated shaping with large power tools, this book covers the methods you need to shape sheet metal.

8 1/2" X 11" Soft cover profusely illustrated 144 pages