WOOD BENDER'S HANDBOOK

How many items around your house feature bent wood? It doesn't take expensive machinery or exotic hand tools - just apply the proven methods and techniques in this guide to your favourite projects. Try cold-bending and dry-bending, laminating and kerf bending, for example.

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You don’t need expensive machinery or exotic hand tools—just apply these proven techniques to your favorite projects. Try cold, dry, or kerf bending, laminating, or hot-water, steam, and hot air bending. With each method come wood recommendations from one of the world’s acknowledged experts. Handy charts show the bending qualities of the 25 most important woods and the effects that can be achieved.