Cold Forming Sheet Metal With A Hammer

And some sand paper to smooth out the edges.

Cold forming sheet metal with a hammer.

This is a handy metal fabrication technique you need to learn. I used a 16 oz. You may want a smaller hammer for small shapes or a larger hammer for larger shapes. Follow along as i demonstrate how you can begin shaping metal with hand tools only.

Hammer forming is one of the oldest simplest and least expensive ways to shape sheet metal. A ball peen hammer. Something to cut the metal like sheet metal shears or tin snips. The tokyo based goldsmith yutaka nagai demonstrates how to hammer down a gold ingot to form a sheet.

How can you go about shaping metal with hand tools alone. You also have to grasp the fact that you can reduce the area of sheet metal by thickening it.