jimboflying

You are right it was a lot of work but I had to make the MDF forming block anyway for the aluminum and the combo allowed me to use slightly thinner...

The center section is longer than the side plates to enable clamping the workpiece in the vise and to hold the whole device in the vise.

In order to form the U channel without kinking I made a forming die with sides to capture the edges to prevent them from kinking. I took 3 sheets of...

Good point. I put a layer of E glass down first before the CF.

I was having trouble clamping things to round tubes for tack welding. The clamps kept slipping off so I brazed a cut tube of slightly larger diameter...