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