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cold bend wood

john lucas

It's been a while since I worked with this wood so I thought I would start over with my experiments. This wood comes to you wet and needs to be bent wet. This is 2 years old and has dried. So my first experiment was, can it be re wet. It can. Here is an example. 1/8" thick and bend into a pretty tight circle.

I found early on that this stuff was impossible to turn to smaller diameters when wet. It simply is too floppy and want's to ride up over the edge of the tool. I'm going to try to dry a piece and turn it, then re wet it and bend it so see if that works. I'll let you know in the next couple of days.

this piece was bent using just my fingers and then clamped for 2 days to let it dry.


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philip f Duffy

John, what species?

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Rum

Ok that's cool - I'd never heard of this stuff before. Can't wait to see what ideas you come up with for it!

http://www.puretimber.com/bending/

"If you have a piece that has dried out on your work bench or shop floor, you can make it somewhat flexible again by soaking in warm water (if it hasn't already been kiln dried), or for small pieces, a short time in a microwave to warm it. Give it just enough time in the microwave to warm it, not so much that you dry it out. "

They also have some turning thoughts on their woodworking page (plus a "proprietary magic we do.." bit..)

http://www.puretimber.com/woodworking/

The finishing section is interesting.. It kind of sounds like if you don't dry it all the way first its less likely to fully set. They also recommend kiln drying for the finished product there to fully set it..

http://www.puretimber.com/finishing/

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