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@Rik_Van_Looy
^ osgear bits look fascinating, always loved the chain-route, it has a rather nice steampunky look to it...
Don't know if you saw this link:
halfway down, someone writes...
I recently got a couple Bike Nashbar mustache bars, which are 15/16" chrome moly steel, with an eye to bending them into a Lauterwassery shape. I did the first one last weekend, using old MTB stems and, as cheater bars, the tubular steel legs from an old conference table. The technique was to mount the two stems a short distance apart, and bend them away from one another; giving me a series of ripples, one between every two places I mounted the two stems. The overall look is good...
Not sure what the writer means by cheater bars, my assumption is that they're just bits of tube to give you a bit more leverage for bending.