Homemade press

[Tuomas]

Well, I don't want to be the taskmaster, but you'll get a good measure of repeatability with a back-gauge. Then preparation will cover a run of parts. I need to do some round corners myself, to restore a rusted out and ancient Kennedy roll-cabinet. I'm even thinking of making it a bit taller. Issue now is how to produce offsets for the panels between...

Yep. It helps sometimes. But i don't usually trust them. If you make bends for the both ends using back-gauge, and have made little mistake when cutting the workpiece, then mistake is delivered between the bends.

I like to design my builds so that possible measuring mistakes are left to the edges, where there usually is no matter, if one side is one millimeter longer or shorter. ( if it matters, then its easy to remove with grinder.)

This gives me a conclusion that there is no best way to do anything that would work with everybody. Everyone works on their own way, how they design, mark or measure..

Personally i think that its good to have many different bending dies. But if i would need to choose only one option, that would be:

Round bars at the lower die, and sharp one on upper.