Thank you for the welcome Jon!

Though I have over the years cobbled together, as needed automotive repair tools (my first was a front wheel bearing puller for early VWs), these tools were ugly and crude. I'm not exactly sure what tools I'm going to build next, but I'm shooting for less ugly and more refined. I have a few ideas kicking around to build tools to make messing around with sheet metal (steel and aluminium) projects more satisfying.

In regards to your suggestion to start a new discussion about locating local sources of metal stock--what section of the forum would be the correct section for me to post?

Thanks for the great forum!
Geoff