How To Form Sheet Metal With A Hammer

For this example we will hammer form some tank end caps.

How to form sheet metal with a hammer. Hold the hammer lightly in your palm and let it bounce off the metal in a fluid motion. Keep the hammer bobbing in a straight up and down motion and just turn the metal piece. You will be working with sheet metal that can be. You want the wood to be a soft wood so you can.

Adding peen marks and texture to each part of a scrap metal sculpture. If you hammer softly most of the time and harder once in awhile those harder blows will stand out. Safety glasses are a must for any project. You will need a block of wood.

Think of it as a massive stretching machine that thins the material that it impacts causing it to stretch and contour. This is a handy metal fabrication technique you need to learn. This old planishing hammer can form metal quickly but with limited accuracy. Hammer each blow with equal effort for uniform marks or textures.

Shaping sheet metal with a ball peen hammer and wood step 1.