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how do you bend wood into the boat shape?
"Marcel" ) writes:
The problem is how do you bend wood on a yet to built boat. I am using wood 7mm thick and 50mm wide. The way they bent the spoons in "The Matrix". If the wood won't bend you can split it into thinner pieces all or part way, make saw cuts on the inside of the bend, or you can try moistening and optionally heating the wood using steam, hot water, hot wet towels, etc. A steam box is often preferred because its fast, the wood can be made to bend more, and the wood does not get saturated with water so can be worked when it has cooled. Green (freshly cut) wood is moist and will bend with or without heat more easily. Old dry wood has to soak up moisture before it can be heated to bend. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ William R Watt National Capital FreeNet Ottawa's free community network homepage: www.ncf.ca/~ag384/top.htm warning: non-freenet email must have "notspam" in subject or it's returned |
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