This is the orginal Dubro Z bend tool. It was a wonderful tool. A very easy two step tool that gave perfect z bends every time when used with Dubro 2-56 rod end soft wires. It only retailed for around eight bucks. Production was stopped perhaps two years ago and a new bench mounted substitute was introduced which does work well but its expensive and required screwing down to a bench.

When I asked why the original was discontinued at the Dubro booth last year in the industry show at Las Vegas, It was explained that the fellows will tend to use hardened music wire and that just will not work well and in some cases folks used metric wire which is slightly smaller and the bends just do not work unless the intended rod is used[]

Anyway that is the reason given but that little jewel is a treasure if you find one somewhere snag it.

John