Wood Plank Benders - Edge Bending

[MintGum]

Wood Plank Benders - Edge Bending

 

Are there any commercial jigs for edge bending planks?

 

Many use home-made versions similar to this: How to bend planks for a ship model

 

 

Edited 15 hours ago by MintGum

[MintGum]

15 minutes ago, Ronald-V said:

With a traveller iron

 

https://youtu.be/atXqH0GWLL8?si=mHFoYjWDfEhqtKg6

 

I'm looking for a commercially made and marketed jig similar to the home-made ones that you and I have linked to.  I don't necessarily need to know how to do the bending.

[RolandR]

I don’t know if it is worth money

https://www.amazon.com/GAWEGM-Wooden-Ship-Model-Tools/dp/B09VD6JY3J/ref=sr_1_2?crid=2IZ7943QJ475E&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.kRcUwgZ7l0Jbp-Y9tRdk62mksAv9zBUuele784PzuzQX35a0qAnusVjOpCmX405sPalVNxka0DucEXb1OtnV3YSAHjP69jGPPcMPNnMsIJvKyt2gfzp1mAqk0RRRue8Xd8KUf-n9K7ywLhPBTK3dudaVHV1LNRHGPkem-8EgfhoeSIHcic91FGEzxJnXZsVMt8Khwc0G8oR6XDto9WzNKv4EP0qEC_XpKGOlpVeTxvSzD14IaCEkY2tjmawiC7dwsnPFUq2vYHuvlXofZDeLTAqyDGSctJwVXTJLs4BMJ5I.G88T2M8Xr-q14ul4TDxPatvfq-csmaB4dUoZHGGFJ-Q&dib_tag=se&keywords=Wooden+ship+jig&qid=1767023489&sprefix=wooden+ship+jig%2Caps%2C195&sr=8-2

[MintGum]

1 hour ago, RolandR said:

I don’t know if it is worth money

https://www.amazon.com/GAWEGM-Wooden-Ship-Model-Tools/dp/B09VD6JY3J/ref=sr_1_2?crid=2IZ7943QJ475E&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.kRcUwgZ7l0Jbp-Y9tRdk62mksAv9zBUuele784PzuzQX35a0qAnusVjOpCmX405sPalVNxka0DucEXb1OtnV3YSAHjP69jGPPcMPNnMsIJvKyt2gfzp1mAqk0RRRue8Xd8KUf-n9K7ywLhPBTK3dudaVHV1LNRHGPkem-8EgfhoeSIHcic91FGEzxJnXZsVMt8Khwc0G8oR6XDto9WzNKv4EP0qEC_XpKGOlpVeTxvSzD14IaCEkY2tjmawiC7dwsnPFUq2vYHuvlXofZDeLTAqyDGSctJwVXTJLs4BMJ5I.G88T2M8Xr-q14ul4TDxPatvfq-csmaB4dUoZHGGFJ-Q&dib_tag=se&keywords=Wooden+ship+jig&qid=1767023489&sprefix=wooden+ship+jig%2Caps%2C195&sr=8-2

 

Thank you for the Amazon link to this.  I listed it under the rounding plank benders but it also appears capable of edge bending with the addition of some weights.

Edited 14 hours ago by MintGum

[Gregory]

I really do not think there is a commercial version out there.

 

The jig in the video you provided looks really good.  I'm going to explore that one.

 

This shot from one of Chuck's videos is about as simple and as good as it gets. 

 

I wonder If I could put three clamps and some scraps of wood in a box, call it an "Edge Bender" and sell it for $30 ?  😁

 

[Dziadeczek]

I keep posting here this video over and over - this is Gebhard Kammerlander, a German modelmaker and kit manufacturer, who many years ago wrote an article on bending woods in the now defunct magazine "Ships in Scale".

 

 

If you go down the video about 2/3rds length (or about 3 min. 15 sec), you will see what can be done bending woods sideways as well.

All this is done with a standard modelmaker hot bending iron available online, or a modified soldering iron with a special head fashioned from brass or aluminum.

I checked his technique - works like a charm! No special jigs required, no hot teakettles, no hot lightbulbs or hair curling irons, etc!

I also put together a heat control unit from an electrical dimmer (nondigital) I use with my soldering iron, since standard heat for soldering is a bit too hot and you might burn your wood accidentally.

Easy does it!!!