---

Wood Bending by Boiling - Sussex Chair Part 6 Hello Harry, I just subscribed, you got an amazing channel!
Where do you get all those wooden staves in the video at  6:12 ? do you have a supplier in the UK? I'm always looking for bow material and what you got in there looks ideal
Very good video, helped me a lot, I'm building a wooden boat and need to bend some of the structural members to get the right shape. Thanks for the info.
I have seen several of your videos now and you sure have a lot of hobbies dealing with craftmanship...which is wonderful because that is the only way they will survive in this junk filled world.
Show us more.
This is very impressive my friend.
Excellent job! This helped me to get the info I needed for my current project. Thank you for contributing!
2 blocks of wood in the vise is great idea. Thank you!!!
Great job!  I bend tapered stems for my pipemaking and have found boiling is the best and quickest way to reach bending temperatures.  I share your nerves... it doesn't matter how many times I've done it, my heart gets racing every time.
If you keep your wood above the water with only maybe 1/4 inch water in bottom then cover the top then your wood will be steaming. ?.. steam has higher temp than boiling bringing the cellulose fibres in the wood to the plastic or elastic point allowing much easier bending with much less springback also keeping strength higher in the wood
 Hi, there, a contribution to Paul Cuffaro's question on how a drilled wood can behave when being bet. Where I live, I seen electricians bend the plastic pipes (u know where the wiring goes through around the house) using sand and of course heat. Sand in this case prevents the plastic from collapsing thus making nice smooth curves.
Paul, drill the wood, fill it with sand and make sure to compact it as tight as you can by putting in little by little. Use a narrow stick with flat end to push it in and compact (Like the traditional guns= remember those you put in gun powder a ball bearing and push it down the barrel= hope you get the idea).
Boil or steam and then bend! After cooling off and staying in the vices for an hour or any appropriate time depending on what wood you are working on, just remove and tap your piece on a table or anything to draw the sand out.
The inside will be very clean.
Oh! remember sand will enable the steam or hot water to soften the wood from inside the core more efficient than plastic.
Hope this length suggestion was helpful. Regards=Eric
very instructive video
In many videos watch, I am pleased that only Englishmen continuing their traditional way of working. Very nice well done.
Thanks - i enjoy seeing the regional differences and ways of doing things, and the availability of different tools in different countries - I guess its what make all of us interesting in different ways. if you are from Ireland thats a great country......and one I enjoy visiting. Harry
you're so properly english in your vocabulary, i love it!! Dilly Dally
Hi - i think the wood would still bend, but you might occlude the hole - perhaps you could drill the hole and then fill it with flexible wire or plastic rod. To stop the wood breaking you might also be able to support the outer wood fibres by inserting the whole tube into a plastic hose? Well there are some toughts - hopefully someone reading this can make some further suggestions!! Regards Harry
i wanted to make a pipe stem, and i want it to have a bent stem, so i am wondering, if i were to drill a hole down the centre of the wood, would i still be able to bend the wood, or would the wood break?
TY good Video
I like boiling because you can see that the wood is getting properly heated up all over - so if it fits in my trough, I boil it. If its longer then I steam it and hope for the best! So for me boiling is more certain to work. Lots of the old bodgers used to boil the wood. Regards Harry
Hi harry thanks for another interesting video.what is the advantage of boiling rather than steaming the components.
Hi Phill - yes good idea, a lid would also keep the wood below the water better - I will look out for a suitable plank or something - thanks. Regards Harry
Looking good. Could you put. Lid on the boiling bath to save gas? Not a tight fitting one of course.... Chooks are looking well. Phill

---

---

Reklamuj się