Homemade Wooden Sheet Metal Brake

You want these handles about the distance of your metal pieces no more than your shoulder width and about 1 1 2 deep.

Homemade wooden sheet metal brake. The first step was cutting the components the 2x4 was cut to 48. Drawing from numerous online sources makjosher s brake is built from 1 8 steel bar as well as 1 8 steel angle. Generally i ll stick the piece to be bent in the vise and smack it around until it s bent. Cut two 12 inch pieces out of one of the 2 x 4 s.

Since it almost always bends crooked i end up rebending and generally just. Use a 3 8 wood drill bit to drill two holes 1 1 2 deep. I love working with metal but i ve always struggled to get perfect 90 bends. All you need to do is drill 3 8 holes on the 2 side of the smaller wood board.

The angle is secured to a 3 4 wood mounting plate. I cut out 1 2 off each corner of the bending angle. Homemade wooden sheet metal brake intended to produce precise and repeatable bends in metal panels. The bending angle is what folds the metal.

I cut my scrap steel angle. Then insert the rods into the holes. Simple sheet metal brake. Fasten two of the 1 x 8 s to the top of the 2 x 4 rectangle by gluing and screwing them down.