Fort Peck in progress

I made a full size drawing of the contours I needed for the Fort Peck piece. All the bends are done with a heat gun. I tried an acrylic strip bender but the heat was too concentrated for the smooth bends I was looking for. The heat from the strip bender was also more likely to cause bubbles in the plex. I was usually able to have two pieces on the go simultaneously one that I was heating, bending or holding in place and one that was cooling. The final piece required about 300 feet of acrylic strips - I was able to get that out of 3 sheets of 1/8" thick acrylic.