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Old 09-25-2012, 04:34 PM   #10 (permalink)
christofoo
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Originally Posted by some_other_dave View Post
Have you ever thought of getting a shot bag, some dollies and hammers, and a bunch of sheet metal? I know several people who do metal shaping (some hang out on Metalshaping Tools, Supplies and Equipment) and some of them can produce astonishingly nice looking results.

It is a whole lot of physical work, though!

-soD
That's a new method for me. It does look like an awful lot of work. I suspect a newb could easily expend a lot of effort and still end up with choppy results. I wouldn't rule it out though, if I thought improved collision deflection were worth having on the front bumper, it needs to be either metal or heavy fiberglass. Plus it looks fun.

(It's funny, when I did my pizza-pan wheel covers I was trying to imagine a method like that; I invented a rounded hammer and sand-box in my head, but didn't know what it was called, and didn't know if it would work.)

Metro, I guess I was just too scared to google 'car bra'.

Last edited by christofoo; 09-25-2012 at 05:50 PM..
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