How To Form Sheet Metal With A Hammer

This old planishing hammer can form metal quickly but with limited accuracy.

How to form sheet metal with a hammer.

Adding peen marks and texture to each part of a scrap metal sculpture. You want the wood to be a soft wood so you can. You will be working with sheet metal that can be. Keep the hammer bobbing in a straight up and down motion and just turn the metal piece.

I used a piece of 2x4. You will need a block of wood. Hold the hammer lightly in your palm and let it bounce off the metal in a fluid motion. This is a handy metal fabrication technique you need to learn.

Safety glasses are a must for any project. If you hammer softly most of the time and harder once in awhile those harder blows will stand out. Shaping sheet metal with a ball peen hammer and wood step 1. Hammer forming is one of the oldest simplest and least expensive ways to shape sheet metal.

Think of it as a massive stretching machine that thins the material that it impacts causing it to stretch and contour.