This particular coathanger happens to have a nice shiny black coating on it, and I didn’t want to scratch, damage or remove that coating.
So I bent this one 100% by hand, with no pliers or anything, just my hands, fingers and muscles. And yes, it was extremely challenging, I’m surprised I didn’t get any blisters and only broke one thumbnail in the process.
Note that I managed to get this one to stand up and balance on its own without a stand. I did that by ever so slightly curving the final result, the center is about 5mm closer to the viewer than the ends.
If anything, I need to get some proper conical wire bending pliers. All the ones I’ve made before were mostly made with flat faced parallel pliers, not exactly the most ideal tool for bending curves ya know.
This one I took as something of a personal challenge, just to see if I could even halfway do it by hand. Honestly I initially thought I’d barely get two letters in, think it looked like shit, and give up, but much to my surprise it came out absolutely fantastic!