This particular coathanger happens to have a nice shiny black coating on it, and I didn’t want to scratch, damage or remove that coating.

So I bent this one 100% by hand, with no pliers or anything, just my hands, fingers and muscles. And yes, it was extremely challenging, I’m surprised I didn’t get any blisters and only broke one thumbnail in the process.

Note that I managed to get this one to stand up and balance on its own without a stand. I did that by ever so slightly curving the final result, the center is about 5mm closer to the viewer than the ends.

  • over_cloxOPEnglish
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    11 days ago

    Na my dude, don’t shame yourself like that, your idea seemed like it might make sense.

    So I tried exactly that, for science. Sorry it didn’t work, but it drove me down a new rabbit hole on how to temper and blacken iron.

    Guess what? I succeeded in learning metal tempering instead…