Moving Metal in Style: John McGraw Jr. and Flashback Kustoms
John McGraw Jr. started down his career path early in life, to say the least. “My parents told me that I knew how to tighten and loosen bolts before I could talk,” he remembers. McGraw’s father raised him around the dirt cars he raced. “As far as metal shaping background goes, it leads back to…
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A Quest to Create: Pete Watkins and Dexterous Engineering
Look up the word “dexterous” in the dictionary, and you’ll see that it means nimble and skillful with the hands and the mind. It’s an apt description for Pete Watkins’s work—and a fitting name for his shop, Dexterous Engineering. From Watkins’s perspective, “metal is metal.” Which means he tackles all kinds of projects without allowing…
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Passionate About the Craft: Mike Wagner and Cornfield Customs
Mike Wagner of Cornfield Customs Ltd. has made a name for himself with masterpieces on wheels. He’s a metal shaping star on social media. But the craft is its own reward for this self-described introvert. “I like to work, but the only time I really feel free is when I’m shaping metal,” he says. “I…
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Historic Fabrication: Restoring Classic Continentals with Devious Customs
A broke kid with ambition and desire to build customs. That is how Jeff Davy, owner of Devious Customs, says he found his passion in fabricating and restoring custom cars.
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Tour a Baileigh Industrial Dream Shop at Cornfield Customs
Step inside Cornfield Customs, a Baileigh metalworking haven. Specializing in 1926 to 1934 Ford hot rods, street cars, and sheet metal shaping, Mike Wagner’s shop sits just outside of Cincinnati and is filled with Baileigh metalworking machines.
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Preserving WWII History, one part at a time
Vultures Row Aviation in Cameron Park, California specializes in the restoration and reproduction of World War II Warbirds. Many have been shot down or recovered from oceans and jungles. All being rebuilt or repaired with surgical precision, newly fabricated parts or hand shaped panels. President, metal shaper and visionary Chuck Wahl is a rare breed.…
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Master Coach Builder Trains the Next Generation of Metalworkers with Baileigh Machines
Renowned in the world of custom vehicles for over 35 years, Mark Gerisch has built cars for Jay Leno and ZZ Top. Now he’s keeping the art and trade of metal shaping alive by leading intensive classes. In 2014, Gerish founded the Academy for the Art of Metal Shaping in Green Bay, Wisconsin. For the…
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Tony Raley from Hi-Speed Customs Shines on Tucson TV
Tony Raley from Hi-Speed Rods & Customs recently rocked an interview on KGUN 9’s The Morning Blend.
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Jimmy Shine’s Top 5 Metalworking Machines from Baileigh
When hot rod legend Jimmy Shine recently joined us at Baileigh HQ to shoot some product demo videos, we took the opportunity to ask him about the machines in his own shop. “I love all of them and I use them every day. I rely on them and they’ve never let me down,” he says.…
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Gas Monkey Garage
@gmgjeremy from @gasmonkeygarage is utilizing the “fixed stroke” feature of the MH-19 so it operates like an old Pullmax reciprocating machine. He can create his own tooling by simply cutting male and female profiles out with the PT-44 Plasma Table and clamping them inn the universal tool holders of the hammer #baileigharmy #baileighpowerhammer #gasmonkeygarage
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