week 4

This week I looked up the process behind bending wood. Bending wood is an incredible thing and if done right, it looks beautiful. It's a crazy concept because you take a total solid, brittle material, and bend it into beautiful shapes. What i found is you put your pieces into a steam box, an hour per inch of thickness, then after that you put it in a jig that you make to bend them into your desired shape. Clamp them down and wait for them to dry, theoretically when it dries it will stay in that shape.

 here is a picture of a really cool chair with bent wood