Steve B wrote:
My wife wants me to make some sconce lights out of sheets of sheet metal. I
can get paintlock of various thicknesses, but some is rather thick for hand
punching.

I want to punch squares or rectangles to get a stairstep southwest Indian
design type of thing, or variations on that theme.

Are there any punches made in a type that has a punch and a matching backup
to help cut the design? I want to do these myself with a hammer, or perhaps
there is something available that is run by air or hydraulic? Something
that won't cost an arm and a leg, and punch different shapes of holes,
squares, diamonds, rectangles, mostly about 1" max dimension in any
direction, with the holes being smaller, and they could be drilled.

TIA

Steve

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If it were me, id have a quiet word with my laser profiler.
He does lots of work for me and he might just think it fun to write
the DFX file for lots of different shapes and laser them out when the
machine is not making money.
You will need to find a laser profier near you and go and have a word.
Let us know how you get on.
Its amazing what our better halves think up for something better to do!!
Ted
Dorset UK.