Complete Manual of Wood Bending Book

Throw some curves into your woodworking with this comprehensive manual on the art of bending wood. You’ll learn the secrets of steam bending, bent lamination and countless clever methods for machining curved parts. Build an inexpensive steam box from readily available equipment: a tea kettle, a deep fryer or a camp stove. Whatever your project, you’ll find the fundamental solutions for curved elements here. Detailed photographs, illustrations and helpful tips from wood-bending expert Lon Schleining throughout. 208 pages.

Lon Schleining teaches woodworking at Cerritos College in California and has been a professional stairbuilder for the past 20 years. Contents: Introduction A Quick Guide to Curved Wood Part One: Design, Planning, Drawing Part Two: Milling Parts from Solid Lumber Part Three: Lamination-Bending Part Four: Steam Bending Part Five: Combining Techniques and Other Methods Appendix 1: Machine Safety Appendix 2: Glossary Appendix 3: Sources of Supply Index

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1) Submitted by David T., from Cypress, CA on 9/26/2012 Customer Rating: The name says it all: if you’re interested in learning to make curved forms from wood, this is the book for you. Schleining covers bent lamination techniques, steam bending, and more in great detail. While many other authors continue to teach the hidden art of bending wood the same way they themselves were taught, Schleining debunks persistent myths about how to successfully steam-bend wood and offers tips that help to make the process much more of a certainty than a trial-and-error guessing game.