I want to make a Swiss bar for bench press, need help

[m6305]

I have a 7' bar and a 6' bar. I dont do bench press because of shoulder injury only dumbbell press. I need to do bar bench press using a swiss bar, and I cant find swiss bar where I live so talked to a friend who is blacksmith. He can convert my 6' bar to a swiss bar if I give him the dimensions. I like to have two parallel for closer grip and two grips at an angle for a wider grip. What angle the grips should be? how narrow and how wide? Is there anything that I should be aware before I give my friend my bar and the dimension?

thanks

[817boy]

Look at these two links:

http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showth...hp?t=144085231

This one might be the best bet.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Swiss-Bar-Mu...item27ccf1ae24

[Stasher1]

I have a 7' bar and a 6' bar. I dont do bench press because of shoulder injury only dumbbell press. I need to do bar bench press using a swiss bar, and I cant find swiss bar where I live so talked to a friend who is blacksmith. He can convert my 6' bar to a swiss bar if I give him the dimensions. I like to have two parallel for closer grip and two grips at an angle for a wider grip. What angle the grips should be? how narrow and how wide? Is there anything that I should be aware before I give my friend my bar and the dimension?

thanks

Why don't you recruit a friend and have him/her take some measurement of your hand spacing/angles when you put them in the position(s) you find most comfortable. If you're going to have a custom bar built, make it truly custom.

[m6305]

817boy and Stasher1, thank you very much both your comments were very helpful

[UTCFitness]

I have a 7' bar and a 6' bar. I dont do bench press because of shoulder injury only dumbbell press. I need to do bar bench press using a swiss bar, and I cant find swiss bar where I live so talked to a friend who is blacksmith. He can convert my 6' bar to a swiss bar if I give him the dimensions. I like to have two parallel for closer grip and two grips at an angle for a wider grip. What angle the grips should be? how narrow and how wide? Is there anything that I should be aware before I give my friend my bar and the dimension?

thanks

I also had shoulder pain with a straight BB.I built my own neutral grip bar and made a huge difference.I can bench with almost no pain now.You could probably get a metal shop to build you one.Check out my youtube videos to see mine my youtube SN is UTCFitness