Date & Time: July 18th and 19th Class Full
Iconic Speed & Designs Workshops
Our workshops have empowered numerous hobbyists and builders nationwide to enhance their proficiency in fabrication, metal shaping, and welding. Our comprehensive two-day workshop delves into in-depth machine operation and hand tool techniques, enabling participants to grasp fundamental principles and apply them to large-scale projects. To secure your position, reserve your spot, as we schedule a limited number of classes annually. Please contact us to inquire about our metal shaping classes at 661.340.9510
Metal Shaping Classes
Iconic Metal Works offers an Innovative Metal Shaping Workshop. These Detailed Design and Build Classes have Helped Hobbyist as well as Professional Restoration & Hot Rod Builders from Across America and become More Efficient Fabricators & Metal Shapers. Our Sheet Metal Shaping Classes Teach Pattern Making, Planishing Hammer and:
- Two Full Days of Hands on Personal Instruction
- Projects are Made with 18 Gauge Cold Rolled Steel
- We Supply All Materials & Tools
- Completed Panels are to Take Home
- Lunch Included
Our Metal Shaping Classes layout for these Seminars has been Developed and Tuned in over the Years and is Engineered for Everyone’s Skill Set. If you have Never Picked up a Body Hammer or have Never Welded there is No Reason to Feel Intimidated.
If you have Years of Experience and Just want a Better Understanding to Help Connect the Dots with some Advanced Shaping Processes there is No need to Worry that you May have Too Much Experience. There is Literally Something Valuable for Everyone! Our Metal Course is Designed to Help the “Do It Yourselfers” Fabricate and Install Patch Panels, Fix Rust Repairs and Help with the Restoration of Your Classic Car or Build A Custom Hot Rod. These Classes May even Help You Custom Build a Car Body From Scratch.
Day 1
- Basic Hand Tools, Machinery Pros & Cons Including but Not Limited to Pullmaxes vs. Bead Rollers, English Wheels vs. Planishing Hammers, Shrinking Methods that Work, Planishing Hammer, Caulking Tools and Much Much More!
- Understanding the Basic Principles will Help You with More Complicated Shaping Projects Creating a Road Map of How and Why to make a Panel in a Specific Order.
- The Principles that One will Learn about to make Their Panels Fit Better and Weld Up Nicer are;
Learning How to Read Radii and Panel Sweeps during Layout & Shaping,
How to Identify the Three Different Shapes and How to Identify Them,
the Ins & Outs of Paper Patterning and How to Understand this “Topograph” with Detailed Layout Techniques,
Determining Shrink Areas as well as Transferring that Information onto Your Blank. - Learn Tips & Techniques for Controlling Weld Shrinkage as well as Pre-stretching Bead Details; Why, When & How!
- One of the Largest Items on our List of Items we cover is the Difference Between Shape & Form and Why one Needs to be Completed Before the Other and How to Determine that Based on the Shape.
- Learn How Form Effects the Shape and Understanding how Altering it will Help You Shape Panels More Accurately and Easier taking the Guess Work Out of the Process Giving You Truer Finishes.
- TIG Welding Hammer Welding Demonstration taking Everyone through our Standardized Welding Process and How we Metal Finish our Welds for an Invisible Butt Weld Seam After Sanding.
Day 2
- Shape & Fabricate Body Panels which can be Taken Home by Our Participants after the Weekend.
- Everyone will Use Planishing Hammers, Pullmax, Power Hammer, Bead Roller & Kick Shrinkers/ Stretcher when Working in the Shop.
- Learn How to Make a Low Crown, Reverse Curve and High Crown with Thumbnail Shrinking Dies, Pre-stretching Bead Details, Using Corking Tools.
- and Much Much More.
