How To Make a Paper Pattern Template for Metal Fab & Sheet Metal - Hand-Made Fender - Eastwood

Making a template is one of the most important aspects of duplicating a panel. Your new panel or part will only be as accurate as your paper pattern template. in this video, Mike Phillips of Phillips Hot Rod & Customs in Downingtown, PA shows you how to make a template for your sheet metal work. Get Your Metal Fab Supplies at Eastwood: https://www.eastwood.com/welders.html?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=annotation&utm_campaign=2016-02-04&utm_content=metal%20fab%20supplies Visit Phillips Hot Rod & Customs: http://phillipshotrods.com/ Mike just hand fabricated a set of dually truck fenders for a 50s era COE truck that a guy is converting into a dually. To have the fenders look correct and follow the bodylines, Mike only used the outside of the original fenders (the mostly flat area around the wheel opening). He then hand fabricated three otehr panels and TIG welded them together to create perfect OEM - looking fenders. Eastwood - Since 1978