Pulpit profile

[Graham_Wright]

I have tried various methods of mocking up a pulpit shape and none have been brilliant. I would welcome some input.

I started with 1" copper tube (straight i.e. hard) It wasn't far off but despite using a pipe bender and spring, the bends looked naff.

Second attempt used Ø25 HDPE solid (to hand) heated with a hot air gun and bent by hand. Better but still not brilliant.

My cnc lathes use coolant hoses consisting of short interlocking links which allow bending any wichway but are unbelievably expensive.

I bought some convoluted drainage pipe but it was too floppy to control.

I have thought of hose filled with water and frozen when in the correct shape but I am sure the weather will not oblige.

Soft iron rod or reinforcing rod around Ø 1/2" should be re-bendable but I haven't tried it.

(Come to think, if I used that with a Ø1" hose round it perhaps that would work.)

I am sure others must have trodden the same path and I would welcome new ideas please.

 

[sarabande]

alkathene water pipe of the intended diameter with a bit of rebar (8mm is easy to bend by hand) inside it to make the pipe hold the shape.

 

[MM5AHO]

I probably have the same problem, but am a bit behind this step.

A damaged pulpit this summer raised the question of its shape before that latest damage. Seems likely that it was damage long ago and I'd now like to reinstate the original shape.
But how to decide that shape?

I think your steel rod inside alkathene pipe sounds best.

Then next stage is to find someone to fabricate that shape.

 

[Graham_Wright]

alkathene water pipe of the intended diameter with a bit of rebar (8mm is easy to bend by hand) inside it to make the pipe hold the shape.

Plagiarist!