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Mark Ohlund
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Steaming wood
wrote:
Hi,
I need to make some porthole liners for a barge and I was thinking of
steaming some wood strips. Size is approx 1.15m long - it is a 0.381m
diameter porthole - 60mm wide and 6 - 8 mm thick. I was thinking of
using mahogany or similar dark hard wood.
Can I bend steamed mahogany to this radius?? - or any other
suggestions??
My understanding, is that steam bending works best on *green* wood.
You might have better luck doing bend lamination with matching scarf
joints to build up the desired thickness. Issue here would be that the
circumference would change upon each lamination application, so you'd
have to cut laminations longer than needed and test fit them to get the
appropriate lengths.
~Mark.
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