Take a wood dowel, several feet long and about a half-inch in diameter. Then, with your bare hands, tie a knot in it. It’s very possible to do with wood — just not ordinary wood. Bethel Furniture ...

Bending wood is a complex affair. Despite the curves inherent in trees, most wood does not naturally want to bend. There are a few tricks you can use to bend it however, such kerf cutting and steaming ...

Wood is well-known to be a very versatile medium. What isn't so well-known, though, is its properties for bending. For instance, you can use steam to shape this otherwise inflexible material or employ ...

Q: I have a corner in a home office where I want to build a corner cabinet. The question is how to make the front of the cabinet round so that the radius of the front goes from one wall to the other.

Do you like walnut, handtools, epoxy, tables, and woodworking? This video covers blacktail collaboration, bent lamination forms, and bending wood techniques to create a radial matched starburst veneer ...

Bending wood is a complex affair. Despite the curves inherent in trees, most wood does not naturally want to bend. There are a few tricks you can use to bend it however, such kerf cutting and steaming ...

They say if you love what you do, work is like play. For Brian Skalaski, “playing” with steam-bending wood experiments led to a winning entry in the prestigious Young Wood Pro contest. This is the ...

Bending wood does not require magic. However, the effects of wood bending do seem somewhat magical when New Lenox resident Bartosz Skomorowski, aka Bart Komar, is behind it. Komar’s woodworking skills ...

Curving wood can be wasteful at the industrial level. A new technique uses wood's own natural process of warping to curve to a chosen angle. Warping is usually considered one of wood's weaknesses, but ...