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HOW-TO Make CURVED FLANGES on SHEET METAL With A Flanging Tool You Can Make At Home!


HOW-TO Make CURVED FLANGES on SHEET METAL With A Flanging Tool You Can Make At Home!

We’re fans of home-built tools around here, and this one is probably the simplest one you’ll ever make! We’re talking about one piece of material and one tool that everyone has, and you’ve got a tool that will help you make some pretty cool things in your shop. This flanging tool is something simple, easy, and effective which is exactly what we all want in our tools. If you want to see how to use it, this video also shows that. You will see how to use it to shape a hole in a fender to install a Jaguar gas cap in an old Plymouth.

Check it out.

Video Description:

On this episode of Make It Kustom, I install a 1980s Jaguar gas cap in a 1948 Plymouth fender using simple tools to stretch the flange of the Plymouth sheet metal over the Jaguar gas cap structure. Follow along to learn how to make your own sheet metal flanging tool.


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