How To Bend Wood

1 HOW TO BEND WOOD BY GRANT CAMPBELL Hi again. Time for another post, and this time we're going to discuss wood bending. Depending on the degree of bend, and whether or not the bend is compound, there are a couple of methods for bending wood. First, you need to have a form to bend your wood around and clamp to to hold the desired shape. Most bent wood will have a certain degree of “springback”, so you must build your form with an allowance for this. And, unfortunately, there is no established formula for determining the degree of springback that a given species of wood will produce. Springback is also influenced by the bending method used. That is to say that steamed wood will spring, or “unbend” more than wood that is laminated and glued. Another variable is View the rest of this article