PhotoFold etched metal bender

[cteno4]

So a fun tool came in the mail today! It's an etched metal bending tool. I've been looking at these for a while and was about to get one of the standard ones where you screw down the clamp on your piece then slide a razor under the exposed piece and bend it up. But then looking around I found this uber cool little bending brake that, wait for it, is made of etched metal itself! It's very cool and simple design that is well executed. It's called PhotoFold by paragraphix. Bout $25 which is cheaper than most of the traditional etched metal folders.

 

Works very easily, slide your piece in, hold down on the top clamp piece and lift the folding side. The clamp piece reverses for either one long edge or a series of progressively smaller tounges. Really is just a mini mental brake! You can use a binder clamp on the clamp piece if you want it held more strongly like if doing a long fold.

 

https://www.paragrafix.biz/product_detail.asp?PPartNum=pft-5

 

https://www.culttvmanshop.com/PhotoFold-Photoetch-Bending-Tool-from-Paragrafix_p_2229.html

 

Cheers

 

Jeff

 

 

[tossedman]

Alright, another tool. Can't have too many tools.

[cteno4]

You are so right dude! The one who dies with the most toys and tools really wins!

 

Jeff

[Martijn Meerts]

Once you start buying new tools to build stuff to store your tools in, you may have gone too far =)

[cteno4]

I'm wayyyy to deep into that loop already!

 

Edited January 6, 2016 by cteno4