How to make curved wood

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Bending wood is great fun, but it can be frustrating when you need to work quickly (i.e. make a living at it). After you bend a piece of wood and clamp it to a form, you usually need to let it sit for…

By Brad Holden…

One viewer asked how to bend the wood for garden arches. The reality is that most walkway arches are not bent wood, but wood glued together and cut out to the curve. But you can bend wood.If you really want to bend thick pieces of wood, that is usually done by steaming it first. You could take a long piece of PVC pipe, close off one end and fill it with hot water to soak wood and get some bend out of it. Of course different wood bends differently, oak probably being one of the best for…

Bend Wood 3 Ways: I am on a mission to build the most comfortable chair, ever. TANGENT! -Do you play video games? I don't, but have recently learned some vocabulary that has a lot of bearing to this mission I am on of building the most comfortable chair ever- the si…

Whether you’re building a frame for an arched opening, making curved brackets or fashioning arch-top casing, marking and cutting curves is part of the process.

Whether you’re building a frame for an arched opening, making curved brackets or fashioning arch-top casing, marking and cutting curves is part of the process.

One of the most impressive pieces of furniture in the show (read part one of my story here) is a tall, pod-like cabinet that was commissioned by a wrist-watch collector. To house the collection…