How To Make A Sheet Metal Flower

Cut the edges off the square to create a circle.

How to make a sheet metal flower.

Quench the bend in a bucket of water. Cut starter squares start by gathering your sheet metal and measure mark and cut out three or more squares of metal. 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. Get a piece of sheet metal from your favorite home store or salvage yard.

You can make a flower from sheet metal with a few simple tools and a few simple steps. How to make metal flowers. Put the bolt in the 3 petal piece and hold it in place with a screwdriver while sliding the outer petals onto the bolt. Use your snips to cut it into a square.

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. 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. I wanted to make more metal flower to go with the copper daffodils i made previously. 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. We will be welding this onto the rest of the stem later. Thank you yami and kr.