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.

Damn that turned out so good, now I wanna try it

Sorry, I can only recognize the scale of a banana.

LOL, all out of bananas right now.

The whole thing, counting the trail-in and trail-out, is 23.2cm long, and the B is 4.5cm tall.

https://bananaforscale.info/convert/length/23.2-centimeters-to-bananas

So it's apparently 1.305 bananas long 🍌

Brian Buan

Why not just use a piece of inner tube or something to protect from scratches?

If anything, I need to get some proper conical wire bending pliers. All the ones I've made before were mostly made with flat faced parallel pliers, not exactly the most ideal tool for bending curves ya know.

This one I took as something of a personal challenge, just to see if I could even halfway do it by hand. Honestly I initially thought I'd barely get two letters in, think it looked like shit, and give up, but much to my surprise it came out absolutely fantastic!

B(space)uan

Bend the lighter next

What a great reminder of the child you "lost". Lol I'm sorry, that's really dark.

That's my name silly!

Wewease, Bwian!

Um, as like a decorative cage to slip the lighter into or something?..

I dunno, almost sounds like a good idea, but I dunno how I would even start or what sort of style I could work with...

You spelled brain wrong.

I actually tested your thought/idea yesterday on a scrap bit I clipped off the end of this.

I already had a bicycle innertube that I cut bits out of for other projects, plus some double sided tape, so yeah why not try your idea? And so I did, on a scrap piece..

Even with perfectly attached ad perfectly cut rubber inner tube attached with perfectly cut double sided tape to adhere it, still the resulting rubber bufered pliers ended up damaging the clean coathanger plastic coating...

TL;DR - Tried it for the good experimental cause, didn't work though.

Interesting!

I guess my idea sucks.

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..

That’s awesome!