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Project editor Jay Cork has taught classes on bending wood with steam. Truly, no one is more full of hot air. Some wood species — ash or oak, even cherry or walnut — can be bent by softening their ...

In this video, I demonstrate how to build a steam box for bending wood, showcasing a classic woodworking technique for ...

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 ...

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.

Even as technology advances—leaving many of the old ways of building obsolete—certain traditional crafts and building techniques continue to captivate our imaginations with their simple ingenuity and ...