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SHEETMETAL SHAPING WITH WRAY SCHELIN AT PROSHAPER PART 1 Story and photos by Ron Smith A small crowd of guys waits outside a shop in the crisp morning Massachusetts air, sharing experiences and aspirations in the field of sheetmetal shaping while awaiting our mentor, Wray Schelin, proprietor of ProShaper. We six are as varied in […]
These are a few of the pictures we have of the Macauley Speedster it was built in the early 1930’s by Packard Motor Co. for the president of Packard Motors and the car disappeared in the midst of time and all that remains is just a few pictures of it. From these pictures we made […]
Insert from Lars Anderson Auto Mueseum demonstration by Wray Schelin Working sheet metal (gold and silver first- later copper, bronze, and steel) was one of the first human crafts developed. All of the skill sets required to make sheet metal conform to a craftsman’s desired shape, were discovered in the very early years of human […]
Dents in sheet metal are not destroyed metal — they’re displaced metal. The surface area is mostly intact. The arrangement is wrong. That’s an important distinction, because it means most dents can be worked back to factory condition without cutting, welding, or body filler — if you understand what’s actually happening in the metal and […]