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Brian Nystrom
 
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Default Steam bending basics??



steamer wrote:

--Looking to see if someone's got a technique or guidelines to
follow; i.e. how long to steam a particular wood with a certain thickness.
Are there tables for this sort of thing?
--TIA,


The "rule of thumb" is to steam for one hour for each inch of thickness. This
seems to be the recommendation for any of the common bending woods (oak, ash,
walnut).

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Regards

Brian