Abstract: A metal working hand tool and a method for its use are disclosed for making a two piece, four sided, metal trophy column. The first column part is a housing formed with a first piece of sheet metal forming three sides of the column with longitudinal clasp portions at the terminating edges of the first and third of these sides. The second column part is a decorative insert formed from a second piece of sheet metal forming the fourth one of the sides of the column, having longitudinal clasp engaging portions at the terminal edges thereof which engage the clasps on the housing. The hand tool is an L shaped body with a first slot in the short segment thereof for securing a first end of the first piece of sheet metal while it is being sequentially bent over the adjacent sides of the body forming the three sided housing with its longitudinal clasp portions.