How to Make a Motorcycle fender (Part 4): Shrinking, Planishing and Re-designing

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How to Make a Motorcycle fender (Part 4):
Wray starts off by shrinking the rear of the fender where the ducktail is using the torch and a body hammer. Once he has the ducktail where he wants it to be, Wray takes the panel to the planishing hammer and planishes the shrunk area. He noticed the peak in the front is a little off so he brings the fender to the english wheel and removes the peak and then marks the correct location back onto the fender. He brings the fender to the tipping wheel, using low pressure in the beginning and slowly increasing it as he moves further along. Once this is complete Wray decides to have the fender come to a point in the front and back, grinds away excess material and voila.
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@user-is3qk6nc6e 3 ай бұрын

Very good sir!!

@proshaper 3 ай бұрын

Many many thanks

@arthurcgans8198 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Wray! I now have some new skills to learn in retirement! For the record, I have several motorcycles and love them.

@jobplacencia6497 2 жыл бұрын

awesome vid

@mikegorman8096 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent Teacher !! Awesome production !! Informative.........Sweeeet.

@kimknowles3681 2 жыл бұрын

Always learning something. Good job Wray.

@audacitytheband 3 жыл бұрын

I enjoy seeing how you fix your mistakes. Some of that information is more valuable that anything.

@MrSunrise- 3 жыл бұрын

I was kind of wondering about that - the initial rolling video made it look like the line was crooked - turns out that's because it was.

@proshaper 3 жыл бұрын

Metal is Clay, make a mistake, you just fix it.

@parrotraiser6541 3 жыл бұрын

That fender would work nicely on a pre-WWII sports car, something with skinny tyres on wire wheels.

@89RASMUS 2 жыл бұрын

Price for material: $5 Price of end product: $150 Worth of the satisfaction of making something by hand: Priceless

@starforged 2 жыл бұрын

Looking good. Great Job. I'm doing fenders on a trailer while watching you. They are looking good but hard to do in one piece on the English wheel. I have a planishing hammer but the fenders are too big to manage so I'm getting it done with a dolley and slapper. My next dual axle trailer I'm going to do them in pieces and weld them together. Still learning at 70 years old. Thank you for all your help.

@deadlee8831 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the detail you have gone into over the 4 parts it’s helped me a lot.

@cristianavena9434 3 жыл бұрын

Great video! thanks for showing this amazing technics! im 31 y.o. and from argentina !!

@andysutherlandtaylor9012 3 жыл бұрын

Enjoyable video Wray nice to see you approaching the 30K mark! Hope you & Mark have a good Easter & keep them coming.

@proshaper 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Andy!

@rwcarrinvestmentco.3167 3 жыл бұрын

Canada is in the running for the giveaway! Nice!

@EdVanMeyer Жыл бұрын

A great series of videos, really enjoyed seeing this process!

@Doug_Edwards 3 жыл бұрын

Enjoying the series Wray.

@TheoTHERON_SA 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your channel and sharing your skills with the world. Between you, Lazze and Ron (the first three I would think of) there is so much info to learn how to do it yourself. Thank you. I was wondering if there was a part 5 made that finished off the fender? That would be great. This is what is sparking up my interest again in sheetmetal forming!

@MrSyamsirwan 2 жыл бұрын

Anda sangat sabar mengerjakan detil nya. Like it.

@scottwooster4102 11 ай бұрын

This is good stuff. Is there a part 5 where you wed the sides on the fender?

@LifeWideOpen780 3 жыл бұрын

Your the best Wray thanks for including canada!

@MegaCountach 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent work again guys! Cheers, Doug

@Bedevere Жыл бұрын

You haven't lived until you spend a whole weekend planishing by hand....I would have killed for that machine.

@paulmuff9883 3 жыл бұрын

It’s coming on nicely 👍👍😀

@mxcollin95 2 жыл бұрын

Looks awesome! 👍

@historydiggers3632 2 жыл бұрын

Glad I found your channel. Great videos. Wish I had a fender like that for my trike project. Keep up the great work.

@josecarlospoggian149 11 ай бұрын

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏It is for a Norton Commando? Front wheel looks like!

@Kettenhund75 2 жыл бұрын

Wray, did you ever do anything else with this fender? This video series spurred me to start buying body tools and machines. I need to build a fender just like that for a '67 Triumph Bonneville chopper I am building for my Father... and then a rear to match! Incredible work. I always kinda knew what went into this, but never to this level of detail. Watching you walk through the process really turned the light on. Thanks so much!

@gearhed78 3 жыл бұрын

Trust the Eye'Crometer!

@MrJamminguitar 2 жыл бұрын

Hey Wrey. Cool videos. Just a thought...there are nearly 500k Honda CT 90 and CT 70 (Trail) owners out there. I'll bet if you make a cool front flareed fender like what you made, and give it away (to a lucky subscriber) you would hit an easy 100k views in 1 month, probably huge boost in subscriptions. Tires are size 17. Just a thought. You hooked me in with your moded English Wheel from Harbor Freight. Loved watching your series on that fender. You're an amazing crafts man. BTW...Great camera work cameraman!

@Riverprospector 3 жыл бұрын

I'd like to own that fender and I'm in Canada lol thanks for the vid 👍

@pitcuz 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the great info as always. You being the man behind making so many machines, have you ever experimented with making an electric planishing hammer from a electric hammer drill? Do you think it would hit too hard? Thanks again, Love the videos

@proshaper 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I don't think a hammer drill will work, fast enough.

@dannyzuko1843 3 жыл бұрын

I am curious to see how the naval jelly finishes the torch heated area. I really thought you would have to sand it. Always up for learning something new.

@proshaper 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, naval jelly will strip off fire-scale. It takes a few times and some steel wool.

@Peter-ew4lm Жыл бұрын

Excellent series on making a motorcycle mudguard exactly just what I need to know I have a '50s British motorcycle and need to make a fender with ducktail, centre line and edge bead in a single piece. Would there be a problem to make the shape then the ducktail then the centre peak then a side flange, the peak line and finally the edge bead?

@sibalogh 8 ай бұрын

I was v curious how it's gonna work out when at times it looked liked a badly mangled and twisted junk. But, in the end, it just worked out fine...

@jezzalinko 2 жыл бұрын

thanks for the video im planning on making my own front and rear fender for my motorbike this year as i was quoted $1000 each and im not after anything fancy so instead ive started buying the tools and who knows i may have a decent finished product will hopefully start by july but your videos have given me alot of insight im just wondering is there a part 5 where we can see it completely finished?

@stuartkidd3624 2 жыл бұрын

Hi it's already been asked, will there be a part 5 so that we can see how to finish the edges. Great video thanks ☺️

@tomthompson7400 3 жыл бұрын

Ah now Im feeling like an outsider ,,, no lower 48 or what ever you guys keep talking about ,,, still a great video.

@pierdolio 3 жыл бұрын

In my humble opinion, this metal handles like 20 gauge (032”).

@proshaper 3 жыл бұрын

.039" 19 guage steel

@85amitray 2 жыл бұрын

How to smoothen the edges, which i guess will be so sharp. I am planning it for my cycle

@bryanfox6445 3 жыл бұрын

What do you think about a aluminum speed boat project? Kind of like the "bat boat" lots of curves . That way you can use all these shaping projects for a common purpose?🤔 Plus it would be COOL !

@proshaper 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Bryan, I do have a vintage aluminum racing hydroplane project in the back of my head. Hopefully, I'll have the time to build it someday.

@bryanfox6445 3 жыл бұрын

@@proshaper you only live once, do it for your self 😀

@stevenlarsen1691 2 жыл бұрын

How about putting 3 louvers on the back side of the fender?

@mxcollin95 2 жыл бұрын

I feel like this isn’t the first time this dude has worked with sheet metal...

@robertremalia4669 2 жыл бұрын

what size rim did you match fender to

@Bee.nee343 2 ай бұрын

Why is there no sense in have a bowl stump or a gradual depth shrinking stump? And how does a shrinking facilitator take its place? I understand it how it would be useful in a production sense if you are making a lot of the same part but would it not get time consuming to make different one for almost every different panel that comes in?

@__muana 3 жыл бұрын

I really enjoy your video, all the way from Mizoram, India Can I have your fender

@proshaper 3 жыл бұрын

Sorry, but shipping is too expensive out of the US and Canada. Thanks for watching, tell your friends about my channel. Wray

@butziporsche8646 3 жыл бұрын

Hey Wray, I have a couple of 2.5' lengths of dock bull rail that I would like to use as stumps but they are softwood (fir). Will that work okay? Also, what is that rubber electrical tape looking stuff you line the stumps with?

@proshaper 3 жыл бұрын

You can also make the shrinking facilitator out of end grain short wood scraps. The rubber coating protects the wood and holds the panels. The rubber coating has a self adhesive on the back , it is called EPDM. You will find it at your local roofing supplier.

@butziporsche8646 3 жыл бұрын

@@proshaper Thank you Wray.

@butziporsche8646 3 жыл бұрын

Wray, is that 19 gauge mild steel? Looking really nice. My assistant and I want to build Cycle Karts (we have a lot of enthusiasts in our area). I want to build a Voisin (no compound curves) and he wants a Kart with cycle fenders. I'm not diabetic but I have the same issue. At first when I started getting it, I just thought my feet were asleep so I'd take off my boots and rub them and they were better. But then it began to not go away and early on extreme pain in waves. Now just numb toes and balls of my feet. Idiopathic and no viable treatment.

@proshaper 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, it is 19 gauge steel. I just remeasured it. It is .039".