Steam box for bending wood

Q: Great article by Michael Fortune on steam-bending (Master Class, FWW #193). Now, how do I make that wooden steambox? Rainer Vollmerhaus, Toronto, None A: Make the box from 3/4-in.…

Steam bending wood is a woodworking technique used to create curved wooden forms. You'll need a steam box or plastic bag, steam generator, and some wooden forms or molds to bend the wood with. Steam the wood in the steam box or bag, then...

Steam bent wood is used to craft furniture, lacrosse sticks, instruments and tools. But why does steaming wood make it so bendy?

Excerpted from Peter Galbert’s “Chairmaker's Notebook.”

If you are really into woodworking, sooner or later you are probably going to come up with a need to bend wood. There’s one tried and true method for bending solid wood, and that is steam bending. To steam bend, you need a source of steam and a DIY steambox. There are also many DIY […]

Is there an ideal wood for steam bending, assuming you had a project where you could choose any wood?

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