Planishing is a hand driven process used in auto body repair and sheet metal craft work such as medieval armour production.
Planishing operation in sheet metal.
Trade of sheet metalwork phase 2 module 6 unit 1 unit 1 12 h repeat operation f positioning each series of blows to overlap previous series.
When the sheet metal edges are fed through two rollers a smooth bulge free surface is created.
Roller planishing is a simple inexpensive and skill free operation.
Tips and tricks on forming and shaping metal with a planishing hammer from eastwood.
It relieves the stresses and the welded joints will be stronger.
You ll also see the tear drop mallets and panel beater bag in action.
After approximately forming a metal object by stretching with techniques such as sinking and raising and then shaping and smoothing an object metal workers use planishing for surface finishing.
Planishing is a technique used to curve and shape thin pieces of sheet metal.