I got my new fork bending mandrel in the mail this week. I sent my specifications to Ross Custom Works in Portland and whoever it is running that shop sent me this beauty.
After a couple simple modifications I'm ready to try bending my first fork blade. Everything I've read said that this can be difficult to get the hang of so I don't really expect to get it right the first time.
I put an extra blade inside the one that I'm trying to bend to give myself more leverage, the big thing here is making sure that the bend I'm making is aligned with the oval section of the tube.
It took quite a bit of back and forth between the mandrel and the drawing but I ended up with the curves I wanted in both blades, you can see in the last pic above that they're even and both are lined up almost perfectly with the oval sections of the blades.
And here are the blade ends with the dropouts brazed on.
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