In 1982, Bob Hughes was in the market to buy or rent a tubing bender, but there was nothing affordable for a guy just trying to gut and re-build a car in his spare time. And so Bob thought, “ I could build one - how hard could it be?” He designed the Model 1 Bender and went into business as a one-man-show running Hughes Performance Engineering in Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
Several years later, in 1988, he redesigned his tubing bender and released the Model 2. The Model 3 went into development almost immediately after and was released in 1990. Around that same time Hughes Engineering moved a little north to Ocala, FL and shortly after was renamed JD Squared, Inc. for Bob's three children, Jaimee, Devin and Demi. To this day, the Model 3 remains a number one seller. However, we still have customers calling who need a new die for their Model 1 and no matter what we offer to upgrade them to a newer style, they love their bender and would not trade it for anything. We love what that says about ou