1 Pat Groover.jpg
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Click on Picture for detailed text with every picture.

2 half circ tuck diagram.jpg
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3003 H14 with Tuck Shrinking Pattern

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Making a tuck with the tucking tool

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What a tuck looks like

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What the tuck looks like after I started shrinking

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What the panel looks like after tuck shrinking

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Forming Heads and stands

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Tucking tools

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Tucks made by various tucking tools

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Various tucking tools

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Home made wood hammers

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Round Wood mallets

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Plastic hammers

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Tuck sequence start

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Turn the edge down

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Step one in making the first tuck

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Turn the handle hard the other way

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Tuck is now ready to work?

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Tuck from edge view

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Getting ready to hammer the tuck

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What happens after several tucks are formed

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Explaining the Affected Area

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Setting the tuck

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Setting the Tuck

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Tuck Set

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Making the first series of hits

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Establishing a good shrink pattern

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Second Series Completed

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Checking your progress

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Start of series on tuck shrink

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How the first three hits look

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Repeating the strike sequence

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Third sequence

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Fourth Sequence

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Strike pattern to finish

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Almost done

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Done

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Effect of shrink on one edge

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Effect of three tucks

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Three shrinks equal 1/2 inch of shape

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New Tuck, hitting in the wrong spot

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ready for demo

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one thing to avoid

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Another view of misplaced strike

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How to fix it

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Redefined Tuck ready to start over

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Starting to lock in the tuck

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Two small strikes, this one the left

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Completely locking the tuck in

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Side view of tuck

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V shape of tuck shrink

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Second Series of hits

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Effect of the second series of striks

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Locations for the next series of hits

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How it looks after hitting the last pattern

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Fourth pattern

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Side view of tuck before 4th Series

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Effect of fourth pattern

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Side view

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Fifth shrink pattern

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Fifth Pattern Worked.

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Side view

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Last "V" pattern to close mouth of tuck

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side view

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One tuck finished

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Four tucks finished

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A Alternative way to hammer a tuck

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Closing the mouth of the tuck

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First two strikes at the mouth of the tuck

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Keep the tuck high

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Tuck mouth is closed

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Alternative tuck shrinking first pattern

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Next shrink pattern

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Effect of third series

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Fourth pattern

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Finished or new opportunity for shrinking?

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Make one more "V" pattern into the tuck effected area.

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Blending the top of the tuck into the panel

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Effect of tuck shrinking the edge of panel

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New shape to demonstrate how many tucks to make shape

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A pullmax tuck

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Start of Pullmax shrink sequence

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Tuck size and layout

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First pass on the 3" tucks

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Backside of panel

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First pass of 1 1/2" tucks

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Backside of panel

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Third pass on 3/4" tucks

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Backside of panel

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Smoothed on the E-wheel

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Backside of panel

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Measuring your success

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Shrinking pattern repeated on Pullmax

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Backside of panel

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Measure the total shrinkage again.

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2" of curvature

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Now you can do it