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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??

Steaming is a big and technical subject. Curved work in general and
boatbuilding are even vaster, so nobody will be able to tell you how to do
this or even run through the options in a quick ng reply.

Mahogany is not a wood for steam bending. Bending requires a strait grain
and mahog has too much cross grain. Further to that i do not know how you
would intend to make a complete ring of timber. Are you steaming pieces and
then scarfing them together? If you laminate you might be advised to buy
structural veneers rather than trying to cut them.

Tim w