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Chad Grayek, Overton, uses an English wheel to form a curve in a piece of sheet metal during a metal shaping class being taught at Custom Rides by Patrick Brubaker in Hastings, Neb. on March 17, 2017. Brubaker's profession is slowly going the way of the buffalo. It's a paradox that puzzles the 31-year-old Hastings resident as he forges ahead in his mission to educate, offering classes on shaping sheet metal in six states. (Amy Roh/The Hastings Tribune via AP)

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Alan Von Seggern, Minden, and Patrick Brubaker try to fit a piece of sheet metal around the tail light socket on the quarter panel from a 1953 Chevrolet Bel Air during a metal shaping class being taught at Custom Rides by Brubaker in Hastings, Neb. on March 17, 2017. Brubaker's profession is slowly going the way of the buffalo. It's a paradox that puzzles the 31-year-old Hastings resident as he forges ahead in his mission to educate, offering classes on shaping sheet metal in six states. (Amy Roh/The Hastings Tribune via AP)

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Allan Grayek, Lexington, uses a mallet to shape a piece of metal during a metal shaping class being taught at Custom Rides by Patrick Brubaker in Hastings, Neb. on March 17, 2017. Brubaker's profession is slowly going the way of the buffalo. It's a paradox that puzzles the 31-year-old Hastings resident as he forges ahead in his mission to educate, offering classes on shaping sheet metal in six states. (Amy Roh/The Hastings Tribune via AP)

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Alan Von Seggern, Minden, uses an English wheel to form a curve in a piece of sheet metal during a metal shaping class being taught at Custom Rides by Patrick Brubaker in Hastings, Neb. on March 17, 2017. Brubaker's profession is slowly going the way of the buffalo. It's a paradox that puzzles the 31-year-old Hastings resident as he forges ahead in his mission to educate, offering classes on shaping sheet metal in six states. (Amy Roh/The Hastings Tribune via AP)