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Bending wood doesn’t require superhuman strength. There are a few common recipes and procedures that can be employed to create curved parts from straight boards. The Basics: • Steam it: Heat and humidity will make a board ripe for bending. • Laminate Read More
by Tommy MacDonald
This comfortable lounge chair, with its modern lines and shapely curves, looks complicated. It incorporates 25 steam-bent staves, which also sounds complicated. ...
by Anissa Kapsales
with Michael C. Fortune
Learn how to bend thicker pieces of wood and get multiple parts to uniform shape. Part three of a three-part video series.
by Michael C. Fortune
This is a very easy technique for bending thin strips of wood to virtually any shape. Better yet, the simple apparatus is made from a few hardware-store parts. You ...
Watch Fortune demonstrate this unique technique on a pair of salad tongs. Part two of a three-part video series.
Learn an easy technique for bending thin strips of wood to virtually any shape. Part one of a three-part video series.
by David Marks
This cable clamping jig can be used to clamp coopered curves of almost any radii, asymmetric curves, even S-shaped curves, all without any modification to the jig. ...
Michael Fortune's steam-bending technique does away with the traditional compression-strap method. He uses a compression strap, but only to pre-bend the wood. After ...
by Matt Berger
A man and his machine make spaghetti out of hardwood lumber with a patented compression process
by Andy Rae
Bend a workpiece in two directions in this technique for creating curved and twisted furniture parts
by Richard Oedel
The graceful and elegant curved muntins used on Federal furniture take time to make. But when executed well, they can transform a piece. Richard Oedel has devised ...
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