This cab will be perfect when done.

Thanks for watching. I am hoping to generate some interest in metal shaping with the next generation coming up behind me. I don't want to see work like I do die off like the dinosaur that I am becoming.

thanks Jack, always good to hear from you.

the power hammer is the fastest way of shrinking that I know of,... puts shape in quickly and planishes out nicely. Thanks for watching.

Thanks for being a continued supporter. Cab project is underway and more videos coming.

good to hear from you Frank, thanks for being a continued supporter.

metalshaper Brian your a craftman don’t let Utube get you down mate

Bill, it is always a problem with people and projects........ they just don't understand what it takes to make parts. I think it would be even better if they were here in the shop watching and helping.

Just getting going on this project and things are coming out perfect, just a lot more rust than anticipated.

Great to have you watching, thanks for the comment

thanks, appreciate your comment

many thanks

Thank you for sharing on Facebook for me. Feel free to pass along my videos anywhere you like.

thanks for watching

I have a better camera and a nice stand now. Next thing I am hoping to get is a person to do the camera work for me while I am working. Takes a long time to set up for a shot, so I am hoping someone, someday would like to do the filming.

@@metalshaperJeep man if I lived near you I would. But I moved to Western Washington.

FC is underway and I will show you how it comes together.

thanks for watching.

Time and patience on the power hammer can produce just about anything on the FC project. Fits the buck and the cab perfectly.

your grasp of my situation is amazing. You must have had some of the same troubles as I have along the road of life. Always good to hear from you, and yes things are getting better. Have a freezer full of food..... enough wood to heat for the season...... and a shop full of work, should be a good winter.

@@metalshaperJeep Hey Brian, you are correct, I have had the same problems, listening to deadbeats talk about how other people are so useless, as they themselves, go through the relentless and hopeless lifelong routine of sleep, commute, work, commute, eat, TV, and repeat - living little more than a slow boring death, just consuming and producing nothing as they do it. Sitting in their cars as the service lights pop up on the dashboard or in front of their TV's listening to the lies. I look at them now and think "the wheel is going around, but the hamster is dead..." I am building my own house and workshops in the South of France. I used to listen to all the laboratory rats back in the UK, where I am from, and it dragged me down for years, until I realised these idiots are exactly that, and I basically got in my car and drove on and on until I found the perfect place to live and flourish. And now, as the process is slowly but surely taking shape, I look back at them all, that herd of sheep, and guess what? They are in the same place, doing the same thing, saying the same stuff... There is a saying and it goes; If you always do what you've always done, you will always be where you have always been. It is men like you that built that fkn country Brian. Men like you that that got off there backsides, took everything they had thousands of miles from home to go to a wilderness in a horse and cart - and they built a civilisation from NOTHING,... Just remember that my man. It is men - real men - like you that made what we have today possible.

Thanks George, lots more metalshaping on the FC so stay tuned to my channel.

thanks, more metalwork coming.

I don't know how much experience you have with metal but you can make parts like this by hand with a hammer and shot bag. You will need to be able to shrink by hand and the process will take much longer than with a power hammer. Any part can be made by hand with enough time but you will need some understanding of how metal moves.