{"id":1305,"date":"2010-03-26T20:45:41","date_gmt":"2010-03-27T03:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/steel-bending-jigs\/"},"modified":"2010-03-26T20:45:41","modified_gmt":"2010-03-27T03:45:41","slug":"steel-bending-jigs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/steel-bending-jigs\/","title":{"rendered":"Steel Bending Jigs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’ve been working on creating a railing for the upstairs portion of my house. I wanted to create it out of steel and have some cool curves in it. I needed a bending jig, and after experimenting with wood I realized it wouldn’t withstand the forces I was exerting on it for the curves I wanted. So, I made one out of steel.<\/p>\n

The jig is just clamped to my table.<\/p>\n

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It consists of some 3\/16″ steel (I think) hand bent to the curve I wanted. The circular tube piece is to act as a strong resistance to the bend. I smoothed it out the outer edge with a file, and added another curl on top (welded in the center) to get the curve started:<\/p>\n

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Once the curve is started it can be dropped into the lower curve area and the curve finished:<\/p>\n

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Resulting curves:<\/p>\n

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Hopefully google will index this and help other people who are trying to figure out how to do some bends.<\/p>\n

Some sites that inspired me:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.mig-welding.co.uk\/forum\/showthread.php?t=7802<\/a><\/p>\n

Bending Jig on Google<\/a> books.<\/p>\n

Scroll work ideas<\/a><\/p>\n

Hand done curves<\/a> — great for art, but bad for consistent curves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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