Re: Tools: bending and filling tip from furniture
In Response To: Re: Tools: bending and filling tip from furniture (JohnK)
: Heat softens the lignin in the cell walls of the wood. Water transfers heat.
: Kiln dried timber has about 12% water.
: JohnK
Advantage I find to steaming is you can heat the entire piece at once, like for bending ribs. For coaxing a strip into place Rob's method of using a heat gun works great. Can't imagine how icky handling a steam bent strip would be anyway .
Bill H.
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joel Franklin -- 3/4/2009, 3:13 pm- Re: Tools: bending and filling tip from furniture
Kudzu -- 3/4/2009, 3:59 pm- Re: Tools: bending and filling tip from furniture
Bill Hamm -- 3/5/2009, 12:18 am- Re: Tools: bending and filling tip from furniture
Rob Macks / Laughing Loon CC&K -- 3/5/2009, 9:11 am- Re: Tools: bending and filling tip from furniture
JohnK -- 3/5/2009, 4:50 pm- Re: Tools: bending and filling tip from furniture
Bill Hamm -- 3/5/2009, 5:26 pm
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Fred -- 3/5/2009, 3:37 pm- Re: Tools: bending and filling tip from furniture
Daniel Daniels -- 3/5/2009, 6:37 pm- Re: Tools: bending and filling tip from furniture
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Kudzu -- 3/5/2009, 1:46 pm- Re: Tools: bending and filling tip from furniture
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