seven wrote:
WOW you shaped that bottom hinge piece?! I cant even imagine how to get that center trapezoid in there.
Thats definitely how Id like to do it. I also have some door hinges so maybe I'll mess with that a little too.
So im guessing that you formed the trapezoid in the middle and then shaped the outer metal after...
Hmm. What was the order I did that...
Def start when everything is flat. The trapezoid was definitely first. As I recall, I drew two trapezoids in the center (the inner trapezoid being the top area that would be flat and the outer trapezoid being the edge of 'side walls' of the shape). I slapped the general shape into a vice and clamped it along the edge lines of the inner trapezoid. Hammer it to get the angled edge downward. Flip it in the vice and do the other side so that there is a general 'arch' to the overall shape. At that point you clamp it back in the vice along the outside trapezoid edge line. Hammering this requires more aiming because you have a smaller target area and don't want to hit the 'top' trapezoid. You just want to hammer the 'wall' section into the top flat section is back to being perpendicular to the vice. Flip it and do the same on the other side. At this point you should have the raised trapezoid. You can then set the edge of the overall shape on the lip of an anvil and just hammer it all the way around.
Pay special attention when putting it in the vice to taper the edge wall lines into to the top of the 'top' trapezoid. Does that make sense? You don't want to raise the very top edge at all. Just the side walls which continue out through the wider bottom. So you want to clamp it in the vice where you are not hammering the narrow edges of the trapezoid hardly at all.
For the tabs, hammer them 'out' first, then curl them around. That is more screen accurate then just curling them around from straight (if that makes sense).
You know what, I may just make a video. I'll post it when it is up. I'd like to make another anyways.