My shear is a hand held Ingersoll Rand air shear, think I paid $150.00 for it, for small pieces, two hand held sheet metal shears, one for left turns and one for right turns, $15.00 each at Ace. My English wheel is the welder tank, light pole in the alley, different sizes of tubing, some wooden dowels, body hammers, a shot bag, and whatever else has the configuration I need. If it's a large piece, I make a wooden buck out of 3/4" plywood and form on it. My brake is a $50.00, 30" unit I bought from Speedway, for pieces over 30" it's some angle iron screwed to the bench top, some pieces of hardwood, a hammer, and a plastic mallet. A one man shop that is nothing more then a hobby shop doesn't "need" all the expensive equipment, just some common sense and a bit of ingenuity!!!! When I retired from the big shop to my garage, the fancy stuff got sold with the shop, don't have room for it now anyway. Maybe it's time to quit looking in the wish books and just get to work!!!!!!

Looks like Roger and I were typing at the same time!!!!!