Andrew R Stewart 

I may have asked this a year+ ago, if so I lost my notes on the answer. I am also posting this on the Framebuilders Google group.

A number of years ago I bought these two wood fork blade bending forms. I am finally getting around to setting them up with a mount and lever arm to be easily used. I'd like to give the credit of their maker when I post photos of the complete tooling. Unfortunately I have also lost the invoice, or at least can't find it in the few years of purchase records I have looked through.

Do any of you know who made these? Thanks, Andy

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Nicola Cycles

Andrew R Stewart 

Here's the end result of my blade bender project. Patterned after the Hammil, and many others before it. The lever is about 40" long. I brazed a angle section to a tube for the pressure plate. The wood foot is maple and uses 3/8x16 bolts to secure the form onto it, one bolt is shown for reference. The bolt threads into a cross plug made from a 5/8" bar stock I made. The form has two mounting orientations, in case I need to rake further then the lever will clear the bench top by. I test bent an old single Reynolds blade to about 7cm with very little effort and no flattening or crimping of the blade. The rake gage is years old, note the Reynolds scale and the Columbus one. Maybe I'll need to sell off one or more of my old forms now...

Mike Giannico of Nicola Cycles made the forms. He has since moved on but maybe if enough pester him he will produce another run. Andy