[TheForge] Aluminum bicycle fenders

[Mike Spencer]

I had a question from a local guy who's interested in metalwork but
still at the wannabe stage.  He had seen this web site:

    http://www.jitensha.com/eng/fndrs_e.html

and wanted to know if he might be able to make similar aluminum
fenders for his bike.

I told him (at greater, explanatory length) that without the nifty
industrial power tools it was not a project for a novice.

But it occurred to me afterwards that there *is* stuff I don't
know. :-) So wondered if anyone has done anything like this long,
skinny compound-surface shape in aluminum (or anything else, for that
matter -- copper, stainless or m/s) with hammers and stakes or with
some clever tricks with tooling less expensive than rolling mills or
English wheel.

If you did, howdja do it?


- Mike

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