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Q & A: Steam Bending Gear Q: What do I need to know before building a simple steam-bending rig? A: Steam bending doesn’t require sophisticated equipment. For a single bending project, you can quickly cobble together an apparatus from ordinary materials. The box. Build a box that fits your pieces out of any untreated solid wood or exterior plywood. Add a hinged or lift-off lid, but don’t make …

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

I made this inexpensive steamer out of two 2-ft.-long pieces of PVC drain pipe. Lightly score the pipe lengthwise on a tablesaw, and use the mark as a guide to…

Wood Steamer for bending- didn't know how to bend wood (pinning these for my hubby).

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

Wood Bending Steam Box: For a commissioned sculpture I needed to bend some lengths of pine in a 90 degree arc. To do that I researched both kerf bending and steam bending and ultimately settled on steam bending. Now I had to figure out how to make a box that could stand up…

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.…

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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 […]