Ultimate Sheet Metal Fabrication

This is a great book that I find myself going back to over and over. The interviews are worth the cost of the book. I bought it specifically because someone else whined it was for advanced body men. If you're a beginner you may not understand what is being said. That's OK, buy the book and continue your auto body education and over time this stuff will become clearer.No, it's not going to show you how to bend up boxes and cones and such. However, you will learn what some folks that are really good at this stuff think about their work and how they approach some pretty tough (but exciting) projects. You won't learn any of this slinging mud nine to five! It's hard won information at your fingertips. The sort of thing you do on your own time to get the hang of it.If you want to learn to bend up boxes and cones (and a lot more) check out Ron Fournier's book, "Metal Fabricator's Handbook/Race & Custom Car". This too is a great book that belongs on every fabricator's bookshelf.

Great book, very detailed and has more information than I'll ever use. I found several great tips and tricks in the welding section so it was worth the price just for that alone. The seller said it was used but I doubt the book had ever been opened before. If you are restoring a car or doing any custom fabrication, this would be a great place to start.

After reading some of the book reviews, I almost didn't buy this book. Now I'm happy I did. I wanted some guidance for making patches to fix up the unibody supports and fenders of a car I just bought, and reading the book gave me confidence and methods to do what I needed to do with no power tools. A bag of sand and an assortment of hammers and dollies (and some patience) can help produce some amazing results. The book goes far beyond what I needed to do, buy hey! there are more things I may try now.

I love gooks, I hate digital. I just can't sit ald look at a screen. I can and have read this book cover to cover. I take it to the shop and use the articles while working. Remus has a lot of experience and passes it on well in this book. If you are into sheetmetal work or if you are just starting this book should be in your library.

This book should have been titled "Interviews with the masters of sheet metal fabrication" instead. Very little content to show the uninitiated how to achieve a particular goal or effect in sheet metal-work. It consists predominantly of interviews with different practitioners of particular approaches to sheet metal shaping, with the bottom line being: "You could do this w/ hammer & dolly, or any of several other methods, but this is the faster approach I prefer..." It was an interested read, but not something worth keeping as a reference. I wish I had saved my money.

The book content is excellent, the printing is light, the price was right, and the package arrived on time in excellent shape.

What I found in this book, as a bodyman, was that it helped me to understand how to form sheetmetal into patch panels to fit better, how easy it was to manipulate the sheetmetal with several new techniques. Unless you have some power tools, this could be a major workout for your hands and arms, but with limited tools you can form just about anything your mind can create.

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This book is a reproduction. The book advertised shows clear colour pictures on the cover and inside. The book I received has black and white reprints of the original coloured photographs. The quality is very poor and a lot of the details of the images has been lost.

Good quality book bought as present

Suited my husband for car work and he seems happy with it. It has given him some good tips already.

Book is quite good but black and white pictures very fuzzy and difficult to see.

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