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Wouldn't need a jig, just a centre line on the tube and align the mitres.
If I were you on this, I would get an old frame and chop it up for tubes and practice making the mitres and just see how that goes. If you nail that you could then get some nicer more appropriate tube and then just find yourself a place that does metal fabrication and ask them to stick it all together.
There are mitre calculators on line. You put on the tube sizes and angles it then makes you a template. You print it out, stick it on the tube and cut your mitre.
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I think the issue with using bar-ends is that they're unlikely to be perfectly aligned with the swept section. That may not be an issue depending on exactly how you want to hold them and how much you can cover up with tape. The bulge will mostly be behind the bar, so it shouldn't get in the way of your hands.
For making the bar the biggest challenge for DIYing it would seem to me to be getting the mitres exactly co-planar so that the swept sections are correclt aligned. Do you have a jig to use?