How to bend
Cds
How to Bend a CD for Crafting
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I'm going to show you how I bend CDs to
use for various craft projects you need
a small tea candle of some sort it's
best if it's fairly new and hasn't been
burnt down in otherwise when you put
things over it it tends to make it go
out quicker if it's been made concave
too much light your match and light your
candle and you just take a regular CD
it's best if they're playing and don't
you don't want to have paper and that
type of stuff on there gets kind of
messy so just a plain regular CD and
this one I'm going to make into a
bookend so I'm going to take a pencil
and mark the area that I want to bend it
on and I'm just doing this eyeballing at
this time normally I measure it because
I want to match you set so I've made my
line now I'm going to swipe it across
the candle to heat the CD until it bends
I usually do this about 20 times or so
before it starts to actually get soft
enough to Bend just to make sure you're
keeping it right on the area that you
want to bend on and you want your CD to
it can barely touch the tip of the
candle now after I've done it about 20
times or so and different CDs are going
to be a little bit different depending
on I guess how thick they are but then I
start to actually bow it so that as it
gets warm enough it will start to bend
right on that line it's already starting
right now and if one side is going a
little slower you can actually just do
that side a little bit extra this one
you can see it's bending very nicely try
to I usually over bend it a little bit
and then I can adjust it back as needed
really quickly
and there you have it I'm going to blow
out my candle now it will puts it on the
bottom sometimes a heavy amount of soot
and all you need to do is wait for it to
cool and thats it just wipes right off
and then you can paint it glue paper on
it decorate it however you want for your
craft project
you
