Project editor Jay Cork has taught classes on bending wood with steam. Truly, no one is more full of hot air. Some wood species — ash or oak, even cherry or walnut — can be bent by softening ...

Bending solid wood isn't supposed to be easy—but in this jaw-dropping display of craftsmanship, every twist, curve, and contour defies logic. This is where traditional woodworking meets high-level ...

Instead of the slot-and-tab construction of traditional laser-cut enclosures, [Shaun] used a technique to bend plywood without steaming, heating, and eventually scorching his somewhat expensive ...

You can cut the curved piece out of solid wood, steam-bend or laminate bend. Each technique is appropriate under the right circumstance, but laminate bending is the all-round best. Simply put ...

Pure Timber's Cold-Bend hardwood allows you to incorporate bent wood in furniture without having to steam bend the wood yourself. Cold-Bend hardwood is actual hardwood that has been subjected to ...

All of a sudden, we have a problem with the wood breaking. We don't steam the wood prior to bending, but use hot water. Can we hire you to come and help us out? (This is an excerpt from a long ...

Originally used for building bows and boats, steam bending works by shaping wood with heated vapor – allowing designers to create curvaceous structures like these dynamic furniture pieces.

A craftsman wearing thick gloves and hard-worn trousers was coiling sturdy strips of wood around a slender post almost as if they were putty.

Installed at this year's Tallinn Architecture Biennial event in Estonia, Steampunk is an impressive-looking pavilion that has been painstakingly created by steam-bending lengths of hardwood.

This method does not involve heat or steam. If the pieces are glued following ... It is also possibly the simplest way to bend a piece of wood, without requiring machinery or large molds.