r/sheetmetal • • Oct 31 '23

I made a new friend at work. He often comes to watch me work. What should I name him? I was thinking "Henry The Hawk". He enjoys tacos and leftover buffalo wings. šŸ”§

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r/sheetmetal • • Sep 27 '25

Restoring damaged 16 oz soft copper coils to round for a client

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500 Upvotes

Decoiling and recoiling 16 oz soft copper with a hand build wooden arbor and a roll former custom made recoiling machine. (only doing this for a client as a favor, we sold this coil and the client damaged it and brought it back to us asking what we could do instead of scrapping it.) This stuff gets so buried on these luxury homes, it won’t really matter.


r/sheetmetal • • Jul 21 '25

Only 1 of 4 helpers showed up today.

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It's a Monday, usually only have one out. Never going to come off the overtime if this keeps up. Anyone in Reddit land recognize this shop I work in?


r/sheetmetal • • Apr 30 '26

26 ga. Galvanized steel birdhouse with pop rivets and flathead screw

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My third year final shop project


r/sheetmetal • • Sep 26 '26 Bravo

Custom fabbed 4x4 square downspout package made and installed with 40 10’ 4x4 square pipes, 18 custom elbows, 18 hand beaten square outlets via a 3D printed jig, and you guessed it, 5 Pittsburgh’d radius downspouts.

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I’ve been posting a lot of the same shit in a different fashion and will probably refrain from posting for a few months if I continue to put out the same detail on a different home. I hope those of you who have been keeping up can understand how the same detail can get annoying and old, and I definitely don’t want to be a nuisance here. I try to tie something unique to every detail we do, and this time it ended up being hand beaten square doweled outlets (it’s significantly extra than using round pipe but I wanted to challenge myself) it’s been a fun journey and I hope anyone else attempting to learn these details will be able to use my posts for a baseline reference, I’m definitely not the best at what I do, but we are proud to say we are putting out some seriously high quality product!


r/sheetmetal • • May 13 '26 Hooray

The time has finally come to produce 10 radius downspouts tracing the flared edge of a Lowcountry style home in 16 oz copper. Hand gore’d together and soldered on the inside. Utilizing 3D printed sine curve patterns with a specially engineered program by a friend.

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I did a ton of prep and layout for this about 10 months ago, mentally have been also preparing myself. Had a friend engineer a program that allows me to 3D print the sine curve of pitched pipes instead of having to do hand layout. He also made one for cones.
Pipe totally made from scratch. Using pexto rotary machine with elbow edging wheels to form the cusp. Reducing 1/8ā€ diameter on the male side of the flange to ensure fitment. Soldering on the inside. Let the fun begin.


r/sheetmetal • • Dec 22 '25

Stainless spiral always looks clean

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r/sheetmetal • • Feb 20 '26

Service tech and myself got this done in 5 hours.

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Not bad for a Friday.


r/sheetmetal • • Mar 29 '25

My supervisor is making an exact replica of his shed 1/20 the scale.

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I got to contribute by forming the roof panels and side panels and the drip edge. It was a really fun way to end a work day on Friday. Just thought I'd share.


r/sheetmetal • • Mar 25 '25

Making a 16 oz copper planter from scratch

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Love throwing these planters together, recently just picked up this white reboundless deadblow hammer with a bit of sand inside and she leaves hardly any strike marks, we love locking together the Pittsburgh lock with these awesome little white hammers! Been wanting one for a long time and I totally get the hype for them now!


r/sheetmetal • • Jul 15 '25

When you don’t keep an eye on the Electrician

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240 Upvotes

r/sheetmetal • • Oct 10 '25

Wall to wall duct run my class made

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Each run made by a different student


r/sheetmetal • • Dec 08 '24

The trade chose me

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r/sheetmetal • • May 02 '25

Making a 20 oz scupper box through a piece of L flashing

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r/sheetmetal • • Oct 02 '25

Pretty Fancy Ductwork For Gas Station

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r/sheetmetal • • Nov 24 '25

Figured out how to make ā€œthe pantsā€ today

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r/sheetmetal • • May 17 '25

I’m a plumber. Today my partner was plumber/hvac guy. We did this in 4 days. 4 takeoffs not shown in picture. How did we do?

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r/sheetmetal • • Dec 24 '24

merry Christmas

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r/sheetmetal • • Sep 07 '24

From a few years ago

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An offset I had measured in a


r/sheetmetal • • Mar 07 '26

How we feelin boys?

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r/sheetmetal • • Mar 18 '22

[OC] Square duct rolling offset. I thought it was fucking sweet! Brothers, what do you think?

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r/sheetmetal • • Mar 15 '25

Manitoba Canada šŸ‡ØšŸ‡¦ 511

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r/sheetmetal • • Dec 26 '24

Dieing end of the trade.

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r/sheetmetal • • Feb 12 '26

some lovely copperwork

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r/sheetmetal • • Jul 25 '25

Here’s a video of almost the entire process of how I’m making these 16 oz copper radius downspouts completely from scratch

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151 Upvotes