Steam Bending Experiment

One of my current commission pieces calls for some experimentation in steam bending to create wooden hoops for an oval table base. This video shows my first tests – strips of wood sit in a steam tube for 30 minutes and come out pliable enough to wrap around my pre-made form in the shape of the table base. I learned a lot from this early take and plan to build a much longer tube to allow for steaming 10′ long pieces that should wrap around the full circumference in one go. More detail on this project to come.