We like using acrylic in our projects but there are a couple of tricky techniques, particularly getting clean cuts for glued edges and bending the material into curves. [Giorgos Lazaridis] has a ...

The bending technique he uses starts by clamping boards on either side of the bend. The acrylic left sticking out is pushed with a scrap board while the bend is heated with the heat gun.

Acrylic like this softens at 160 degrees Celsius, but high impact polystyrene would soften at 80 to 90 degrees. Heat the plastic until it bends easily in your fingers. If the plastic is over 6mm ...