Building a Chopper Chassis - DVD - $40.00

See a chopper frame built before your eyes!

Ron Covell goes through the entire process, starting with an overview of frame design, explaining the concepts of rake, trail, and stretch. He covers the use of chassis jigs, then goes on to show how to bend and fit tubing to create a chopper frame to match any design.

Ron’s clear and detailed explanations will help any builder get on the road quickly, with a minimum amount of wasted effort. He also shows the use of both entry-level and high-end tools for layout, cutting, and bending. With the excellent instruction found here,

Making Motorcycle Gas Tanks DVD - $60.00

In this long-awaited video, Ron Covell shows the ‘intimate details’ of making two very different gas tanks.

The first is a flat-bottomed chopper style tank made from steel, and the second is a comma-shaped tank made from aluminum.

Details of rubber mounting are clearly shown, along with demonstrations of forming with hand tools and with an English wheel.

167 minutes

Chopping and Sectioning DVD - $40.00

Inspired by the Rod & Custom ‘Dream Truck’ Ron Covell and Joe McGlynn radically rework a ‘56 Studebaker pickup – giving it a 4” chop, a 6” section, and pie-cutting the hood. Every step is shown up-close, with clear detail, and the ongoing commentary brings out many of the ‘fine points’ of the work.

You’ll see how and where to lay out the cuts, different ways to cut the metal, and how to fit the pieces back together to establish flowing contours. There are demonstrations on the English Wheel, planishing hammer, and Pullmax, plus TIG welding and plasma cutting.

Working With Tubing - DVD - $40.00

This video is filled with fantastic close-up shots, which bring the action into clear view.

Ron Covell shows dozens of ways to work with tubing, including bending with heat, bending with both inexpensive and high-end tube bending machines, mitering, flaring, and tapering tubing. There is an extensive section that deals with using U-bends, showing how to create anything from simple water pipes to elaborate headers.

Most of the techniques use only simple shop equipment! You’ll love it!

95 minutes

TIG Welding Basics - DVD - $40.00

TIG welding has been long recognized as the premiere welding process, which can make beautiful, strong welds on nearly any metal. In this easy-to-follow program, Ron Covell covers the basic processes used for TIG welding, covering proper machine setup, joint preparation, electrode selection and preparation, torch technique, and perhaps most importantly, what to check for when things go wrong! Ron’s thoughtful description of the welding process, coupled with the close-up photography that brings the action into clear view makes the seemingly difficult process of TIG welding easy to understand.

80 minutes

English Wheel Techniques - DVD - $40.00

Ron Covell brings his signature easy-to-follow style to using the English wheel, a machine notoriously difficult for beginners to ‘figure out’. Starting with the machine’s history and a clear explanation of the principles that enable the machine to move metal, Ron shows the basic ’tracking’ patterns that are used to shape panels of various sizes and configurations.

In addition to the common techniques of wheeling, Ron also shows some lesser-known processes, such as using a rubber top wheel, and doing embossing with the machine. Whether you’re brand-new to the English Wheel or an experienced user, you’ll find valuable information in

Basic Techniques for Working With Steel - DVD - $40.00

This is probably the most comprehensive metalworking video to date: Ron Covell thoroughly demonstrates basic hammer and dolly techniques, and shows how to do high-level metalwork that requires no filler. In the video, he starts with a 1932 Morgan in very bad condition, and goes through every step of perfectly restoring the body. Great coverage of hole filling, patch panels, wired edge repair, rust repair, TIG welding, metal finishing, and shrinking. You’ll see how top-quality metalwork can be done with very simple tools!

100 minutes

Shaping Aluminum with Hand Tools - DVD - $40.00

Ron Covell’s first video, now considered a classic. Watch Ron go through every step of making a track roadster nose, demonstrating techniques suitable for making virtually any body panel. He starts with a station buck defining the shape, shows clearly how the patterns are made, then starts shaping each piece and finally joins them together. Annealing, mallet and sandbag rough shaping, hammer and dolly smoothing, metal finishing, and both oxy-acetylene and TIG welding are covered in depth. If you’ve never seen metal shaped by hand, you may be astounded how simple the process is!

105 minutes

Hammerforming Techniques - DVD - $40.00

Two of the best-known names in metalshaping have teamed up to teach you the in’s and out’s of the hammerforming process. Hammerforms are very easy to make, and they enable you to create parts that have the look and accuracy of die-stamped parts. They allow even beginning metalworkers to produce parts they can be proud of. Ten different hammerforming operations are demonstrated, from a simple tank top to a beautiful rolled edge detail on a complicated pontoon fender for a Bugatti. The two Ron’s bring over 70 years of combined experience to the viewers, and you’ll see how their different

Six Motorcycle Masters - DVD - $20.00

Travel with Ron as he visits some of the leading bike stylists in the nation. Bob Thrash, John Buttera, Jim Nasi, Jesse James, Mike Berg, and Paul Yaffe all show their latest and greatest creations. Some of the most innovative metalworking today goes into making custom bikes, and you can see the leaders of the pack in this video. It’s a tour you won’t soon forget, and it takes you into places normally closed to the public.

52 minutes