Wire Bending Jigs
By Eric Dykstra
This wire bending jig helps you bend wire neatly and accurately to make everything from custom pegboard tool holders to more creative projects like jewelry. Most importantly, it spares you the messy results and frustration of trying to bend wire just with pliers or your hands.
With this cast aluminum jig, you can bend up to 1/4″ mild steel wire. Just fit the wire into the grooves for simple angular bends, or insert the steel pegs to shape the wire in more complex shapes and curves. With two screw holes you can mount the jig to a bench, so you can apply more force to your bends. It’s one of those things you buy for one reason and keep finding uses for — at about $10, I can’t think of a reason not to get one.
Wire Bending Jig [Lee Valley]
Street Price [Google Products]
January 14th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
I have one of these, and I have used it a number of times for making parts and hooks. I’m pretty sure I got mine at Harbor Freight, though I might have gotten it mail-order. I mounted mine to a small board, which I can then clamp to the workbench when needed (or grip in the bench vise).
January 14th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
Damned useful bit of kit. It’s embarrassing how often I use mine.
January 14th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
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January 14th, 2008 at 11:39 pm
I have owned one for years. It is still in the original plastic container, never used. I just forget I have it. So it goes.
January 15th, 2008 at 5:14 am
Mad a recess in spare wood with router, screwed it inside… so I avoid to do unexpected 3D bends…
January 16th, 2008 at 9:03 am
The one I have bears the name Royal 335 - made in Korea.
I’ve used it many times over the years for light duty work (it is a cheap casting - so tou can only bend fairly soft matrials.
I’ve seen a lever actuated jig (part no. 82819) that is sold in the MicroMark catalog:
www.micromark.com
www.ares-server.com/Ares/Ares.asp
It seems more robust - but I’ve never used one.
I also have created a few jigs from short pieces of pipe (nipples) - with slots cut in one end to hook the rod or bar stock into and bend into circular shape.
With different pipe diameters you can get various radii bends.