How To Make A Sheet Metal Flower

Put the bolt in the 3 petal piece and hold it in place with a screwdriver while sliding the outer petals onto the bolt.

How to make a sheet metal flower. Get a piece of sheet metal from your favorite home store or salvage yard. To get it tight put the rod in your vice and then while holding the flower petals in one hand turn the screwdriver and tighten it up. Place the stem horizontally in the vice and use a hacksaw to saw off the bend portion 6 inches up the stem from the 90 degree bend. To form the shape of the flower i first heated the sheet metal with a blow torch to make it more pliable and then started to hammer it into shape.

Quench the bend in a bucket of water. This process would be easier if the metal was heated in a furnace first the blow torch cannot heat the whole flower shape to the same temp at the same time i continued heating hammering and using a pliers to form the shape i wanted. We will be welding this onto the rest of the stem later. You can make a flower from sheet metal with a few simple tools and a few simple steps.

I loved these large metal flowers but i didn t love the price so i made my own for a lot less with items from dollar tree and walmart. The size of the squares are up to you but they should ascend in size by about 1 1 2 to 2 inches each square you create. How to make metal flowers. Cut starter squares start by gathering your sheet metal and measure mark and cut out three or more squares of metal.

Use your snips to cut it into a square. Bend the rod to a 90 degree angle stop heating and remove it from the vice. I wanted to make more metal flower to go with the copper daffodils i made previously.