It’s always way easier than me think. I have made press dies with Plywood and had amazing success. Good job man.

Can a 10 ton hobbyist press bend 1mm cheap steel sheets (with 6 cm depth)? Or should I buy a 15 ton press? The shape is not like a square profile, it is more like an oval profile; so corners should not be a problem in my opinion. Sorry if my question lacks any detail, I am a clueless student, any help would be appreciated.

Nice job. That would be a good way to make seat belt anchor bolt reinforcement plates for older cars that never had seat belts.

Good explanation, and demonstration. I was searching for info for pressing steel mesh (Opening 0.097") into microphone grill shells. Thanks for good tutorial.

Little tip. Always use the fixed side of the vice to set your zero

Make sure to add some leader pins for alignment on the real one, also some die springs would be nice so you dont have to pry it open every time.

NIce job. Before watching this video, I would have said that the final result using aluminum wouldn't be usable. You proved me wrong. Good luck on your final tool.

I've never used a cnc machining centre so not sure if this is relevant, but when milling you want to go in the opposite direction of the cutting tool to prevent "climbing" where the milling cutter runs along the work piece, often resulting in broken cutters.

Excellent video, thanks for sharing your experiences

"Crash form" with no real material control or restriction. In the real world this is done using nitrogen and a pressure pad in the center of the lower form, and in a lot of cases "draw beads" to further control material flow.

Man I would love a small Chevy bowtie one.

We are trying to manufacture the Piper Airplane Ashtrays in our haas Cnc and we are having a hard time with the programming

Now we can appreciate hail damage! It doesn't take much. (make the upper and lower out of ice and give that a shot!)

Use locating pins to align the dies We mfg punch and dies for mfg fasteners out of brass crs and spring steels

Nicely done Craig! That'll be way faster than machining those plates. Ciao, Marco.

That worked nicely. I've made a couple of homemade round dies for the ends of a model engine fuel tank and the ends of a small

Pls share a video about different types of plastic injection die with full description

Glad it worked out! I look forward to see where you go with the concept.

You should make more videos regarding this specific subject. And maybe a little bit more complex project!

Never did any die work. AMAZING! I would have thought you would have needed the exact shape to get the nice rounded corners. Wonder how much it pulled the material in from the edges? Is the outer dimension still 3 X 3? Be interested to see the whole process.