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Shit's hard to bend at the scale to cram 8 letters in, but I hear ya. I do have smaller wire bending tools than what I used for this, but the toughness of the coathanger would probably break my smaller tools almost instantly.. π€·
Like I said, this indeed is a bit of a practice session, that's the tightest I've been able to bend letters in a single coathanger. 6 letters or less is easier to define, but by 8 letters, I was more worried about running out of material, which I almost did..
Practice practice practice...
My mom wants one sometime soon too, but her name is only 6 letters..
I dunno, playing it by ear right now, but yeah I might need to look into other sorts of pliers or tools to better define the curvature of the R...
I could read it fine, it was obviously Courtney to me.
Thank you for that. Cursive writing is becoming a lost art, plus it's difficult to bend by hand tools in metal.
I did my best, I'm practicing, and I'm open to constructive criticism..
I could clearly read the 'r'. I don't think your cursive needs much improvement :)
That being said, I think your earlier comment was downvoted for being a bit too aggressive. You get to choose which advice or criticism you take, but it's graceful to keep it cool.
You might want to look up a "wire bending jig". They're not very expensive.
Some come with some predefined shapes, like a semicircle, triangle, and some grooves:
Others just have a bunch of holes and you can insert pegs and different size bobbins to make your own custom shapes:
You can also consider whether something like a wirebending mandrel would be useful to you:
Or even a swaging block:
Pliers are good, especially if you have a few different kinds (you can do a lot with just a pair of chain nose and a pair of round nose, but there are also fancier ones like wirewrapping pliers and "half round/concave pliers"). But for getting precise shapes, it's nice to have a jig of some sort.
Oh, and if you don't already use smooth-jaw pliers, I would definitely recommend switching to smooth-jawed.
Now that's definitely a useful set of tools advice! π
Yeah, I do have some decent high school education in Metal Trades, but even with that said, we didn't exactly have these sort of specialty tools to work with.
I am familiar with some of these tools though, but this is a nice menu of tools, some of which I haven't seen before (but are fairly obvious how to use).
For right now, I'm somewhere between piddle practicing my skills with what I have, and seeing if anyone really wants to pay for my skills and time. If I start properly earning money from it, I'll start upgrading my tools a bit..
I take it Kurtneigh is right out of reach.