Sunday, January 4, 2009

Bending the sides

I finally bent the sides. It was easier than I expected, just time consuming...It took me a while to get the hang of it, but after that it was pretty straight-forward. I soaked the wood for about 25 minutes, and then slowly bent the sides over a section of pipe with a 300 watt lightbulb inside (to heat up the pipe.)

It takes a while (about 30 seconds) for the wood to become pliable but then it bends pretty easily. There were a couple areas with grain tearout but nothing that won't get sanded off.

In other news, I started bracing the back

Pictures below....

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