Sheet Metal Fabrication Basics (Bikers Basics) Paperback – Illustrated, 1 Mar. 2008

Bikers Steel Work.This book is full of good ideas for the metal worker.The projects are not for the beginner,, but show the proper ways to undertake custom steel work. Various custom creations are carried out by some of Americas top metal workers.

Aimed at beginners this book illustrates the basic skills through a variety of custom motorcycle projects that will encourage anyone to give them a go. Enjoyable.

The book is a collection of projects that have been photographed and captioned, but which illustrate well the techniques that the author is trying to put over to the reader. If his aim was to make metalworking look pretty straightforward and interesting, then he has probably achieved this. It's a very easy read, the techniques are well illustrated, and the projects are generally quite useful in illustrating the techniques. My only real criticisms are that I would have liked to have seen some more detailed basics, such as how to produce rolled edges, and some more information on actually using the tools, such as the English wheel. The latter seems to have been only superficially covered, and doesn't really tell you much about its operation. Perhaps the author would like to revise the book and include more details of tools and techniques, and perhaps some Youtube clips would be an excellent addition.I enjoyed reading the book, and feel a lot more prepared to handle some of the metalworking projects that I have planned, so considering the price, I am quite happy with the purchase, and have subsequently bought some of the other books in the series, too.

Very interesting, many methods for sheet metal fabrication are shown.Dommage pas de traduction en français !

Excellent people doing and teaching their best.Reachable and very well described projects for the very beginner, you'll want to start working as soon as possible!