Shaping a cuff

[enigma]

How does everybody shape a cuff?
I started on my bangle mandrel then found an axe handle but still ended up having to do the final shaping with it on my wrist, ouch lol.

[CJ57]

I have a couple of wooden bangle mandrels a round one and an oval. They are still tapered though which I find a nuisance having to turn it round all the time so I still revert back to my old wooden rolling pin, or as Carole said the other week if you know a woodturner get them to turn a couple of pieces of wood for you to the required size

[Tabby66]

I've got a steel stepped bangle mandrel, which i would highly recommend.......only I can't find where I had it from?? I thought it was cookies, but I can't see it listed now.

[enigma]

Thanks both
Ive got the round one and don't mind the taper too much, its just that cuffs aren't round?

[Wallace]

just for info, you can get a stepped one from Alchemy and Ice (http://www.alchemyandice.com/round-s...ers-tools.html)

I am sure there are other sources, but I only know this one at the moment.

[caroleallen]

I only seem to make anticlastic ones these days and once they're formed, I finish them off by bending them around my thumb.

[Tabby66]

just for info, you can get a stepped one from Alchemy and Ice (http://www.alchemyandice.com/round-s...ers-tools.html)

I am sure there are other sources, but I only know this one at the moment.

That's the same type as the one I use Wallace

[Tabby66]

I'm in the throws of making a synclastic one at the moment, but I'm not completely happy with the formed shape, I'm now waiting on delivery of a domed stake....

[LydiaNiz]

I have oval and round ones, one wood, one metal, both tapered.
I'd like a straight one mind...

[caroleallen]

For some reason my round metal one is much much noisier than my oval one. I've never been able to work that one out. I also have a stepped one, though I rarely use it.