Pre-bent 6100 FretWire available for JEM?

[Metallion]

Looking for Pre-bent Dunlop 6100 Fretwire, cut or in lenghts, available to Europe.

Is there any presses available for bending any straight pre-cut FW to 10" for fitting on a 430mm (16.93") board?

Or do you all use 16" boards/FW-presses as a JEM dimension substitute?

Must the FW be of a 2" smaller radius than the Board when hammering in?
When Pressing in, Should the FW be of equal Radius as that of the Board?

[ryanb]

With some practice, you can bend them by hand/with FW bending pliers. That's the cheap option. Just don't create any kinks.

The best option is a FW bender. Stew-Mac's is ridiculously expensive. There are some on the Bay for a little less. Or you could build one. Over on projectguitar.com there is a plan for a bender with $5 worth of parts from Home Depot. Some people hammer them down to a curved wood form.

The radius isn't critical, but you need a couple inches of overbend for hammer-in. You don't need as much for press-in, but you should still have a little over-bend.

[brothersnowgone]

Ryan nailed it. I've always hand bent my fretwire. But I've been meaning to make the projectguitar thing he mentioned for a while now.