Project editor Jay Cork has taught classes on bending wood with steam. Truly, no one is more full of hot air. Some wood species — ash or oak, even cherry or walnut — can be bent by softening ...

From its starting to point as a tree to its product form as a beam or piece of furniture, wood used in architecture and interior design goes through several stages and processes. A renewable ...

We’ve always known, in theory, there are ways to bend wood, but weren’t really clear on how it worked. Now that we’ve seen [Totally Handy]’s recent video, we’ve learned a number of ...

Bending a sheet of wood to form a perfect arc defies the laws of nature and is nearly impossible. Typically, you would have to build a form and then glue thin laminations of wood to one another ...