Bendable Wood

Wood bending is a special technological process for the production of curved blanks based on the physical properties of wood allowing it to change its shape under the influence of humidity temperature and other external temporary factors as well as to maintain the resulting shape after these factors cease to work.

Bendable wood. Immediately after steaming place the wood against one end piece on your bending form. Hardwoods are always the preferred type of stock for bending because theyre more accepting to be bent. HEAT BENDABLE WOODEN MOULDINGS.

Use woods like maple ash beech spruce mahogany oaks or hickory. When warmed they can be shaped to fit any surface. POSH CHALK LUXURY COATINGS.

Starting at that end bend the wood around your form at a moderate steady pace. By steaming wood you softening the fibres of the wood making it flexible and bendable. While bendable plywood is not as flexible as mdf it is a more stable product whereas bendable mdf allows for slightly sharper curves.

Wood is naturally flexible despite being high in moisture but once it is cut or after felling the wood starts to lose moisture and begins to harden. When the tension forces get too high and the wood might break we add compression forces push on the ends to offset the tension forces. Jeff who specializes in chairs uses the stuff where he would normally use a cold lamination.

Wood bending is an ancient craft that is of key importance in many industries today especially in those that manufacture furni- ture boats and ships agricultural implements tool handles and sporting goods. Cut the length of your wood strips to be a little longer than your necessary final measurement. But when using the Compwood there are no lines between individual layers like on a cold lamination and no springback.

Bending wood with ammonia is not really DIY but I show the process which is extremely effective. When bending wood we need to have wood that can absorb compression and tension forces without failure and is also bendable plastic. And Jeff says he saves a lot of time when he uses the stuff.