Cold Forming Sheet Metal With A Hammer

These are bent out alternately and mated with the edge to be joined.

Cold forming sheet metal with a hammer.

You want to put your metal over the dent and hammer it with the ball end of the ball peen hammer. And while it s not the only way to make a barrel for ar15 patterned rifles it is likely to be the most common. For this example we will hammer form some tank end caps. Lots of little hits will make your piece of metal take shape.

This takes patience and can be meditative. The cold hammer forged marking chf is stamped into millions of rifle barrels around the world. This is a handy metal fabrication technique you need to learn.