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?

Steam Bending FAQs
http://www.wcha.org/tidbits/steamfaq.html
http://www.bluemud.org/article/18152

There are few more I found by googling "steam bending faq"
kk