A good stout bench vice/vise (US) and a longish bit of pipe over the round stock and you can bend all day. Don't fret about getting the bent pieces exactly the same before or during bending, you can cut to size after bending.
Learning generally boils down to "Repetition or the avoidance of pain", some people learn by doing, some by watching and some just have to pee on the electric fence.
Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. Henry Ford