How To Roll Sheet Metal Edge

You can create the perfect uniform radius with these bevel heads.

How to roll sheet metal edge.

Using a plastic mallet or planishing hammer hammer down on the fold until it s bent over in a u shape. Bending your sheet metal with a vise 1 place your forms in your vise. Next we clamp our tool in a vice and hook the folded sheet metal over the tool. The benefits of working with beveltools.

For the most part the easiest edge to roll is one on a straight line or one with a very slight outward curve. Your forms will have an edge that should match the angle of your desired bend. Rounding metal with the bevel heads from beveltools ensure a smooth and consistent rounded edge on sheet plate pipe and hole. This is because the metal is simply being bent on one plane.

Using simple hand tools to make a rolled wire edge to a piece of sheet steel. In the photos you can see that we start by folding the sheet metal over a sharp edge such as the edge of an anvil or sander stand. This is how easy it is to make a rounded edge on metal.