Obviously you will want to take control of the sheet that you are working with and become a professional body man. And of course you want to be the best – to be able to do more advanced types of metal work without, or with very little bondo!

I'll give you a great example of what I'm talking about here, 2008 a college in Ontario, CA purchased an English Wheel from me, two weeks later one of the teachers from the college called me up and said " Do you know that your LAZZE English Wheel is working twice as fast as the other ones we have at the school ? " I said no, I didn't know that, can you explain that a little bit more for me..?

He said that they tried to do exactly the same thing in three different brands of English Wheels( I'm not going to mention who the other ones were) and the Lazze English Wheel worked twice as fast as the other ones; for me that was a surprise, because I didn't know that.

So after our conversation I start thinking why?  When I do that I always find the answer; this time was no diffferent. I figured out that on all three brands we have two solid wheels mounted in a C- Frame.

We want those two wheels to do the job on the sheet and stretch the material to make the sheet convex. So far, so good on all of them, but the key is, if the power that we have between the wheels, that should go down on the sheet , goes out in a weak C-Frame, we are losing the power in the English wheel.

For me it was really good to get that explanation and so I can share this info with you before you purchase an English wheel, and ask yourself, What do I want the English Wheel to do for me? Learn how to use an English Wheel first, then you're going to get the right tools for your needs.

I have realized that what I'm teaching is a unique way of using an English Wheel to shape sheet metal in three dimensions. When I started my metal shaping career, nobody told me to first use the hammer to hammer out the metal to shape in a sandbag. The idea is to make it look like a "potato bag" and then use the wheel to smooth it out. This is the way it has been done in the US and Great Britain for many many years. Nobody asks why?

But for me it's hard to understand why you should take a nice flat piece of sheet and destroy it in the sandbag and then go to the English Wheel and try to fix all the marks and dents that you just created. You can make it so much easier and really keep control over the sheet, when you shape the metal from the beginning in the LAZZE "English" Wheel, Bead Roller and the Shrinker/Stretcher.

I thought the wheel was meant to create the shape, and from that assumption Lazze’s Wheel was developed.

This makes Lazze's Wheeling Machine stand out from the rest, and enables us to use a different and more efficient and versatile technique.

With Lazze's Wheel you can work faster and get better results. Work is not so physical compared to the hammer and the sandbag, and this technique to form from the beginning is also quiet.

Before you even thinking about to buy an English wheel, we recommend you to take a Step 1 Class or one of our online classes, it makes it so much easier for you to make the right decision when you have a reference from a class on how LAZZE's Wheel works – you can take a sheet and test the tool to see that the result you get is the one you want.