: In what portion of the strip did you make your cuts? The areas I need to bend
: are not at the ends of a strip ... they are in the center and the bend is
: perpendicular to the width of the strip. Do you have a pic that shows
: where you did this?

: Ken

Hi Ken,

I was follwoing this thread just to see what the builders came up with. All three methods mentioned so far would work, but making thinner width strips may not be your choice if it will change your pattern in a way you do not want. Ripping the back of the strip is a good idea too. John's idea sounded like a real good one to me. It is the easiest (unless your table saw is just sitting there:-). As I understood John, he suggests that you use a utility knife to "slice" the AREA of the strip you want to make bend into several strips. Meaning pick the approximate one foot area and slowly use the knife to make 3 or 4 "rips" out of the one strip. It is still one solid strip on both sides of the AREA. And the AREA is then consisting of 4 or 5 thin (width) strips in the AREA you want to bend. All the rest of the strip is intact. I think John is saying that after you have made the AREA cut into thinner width strips "they" will bend
(you will then have 4 less than 1/4" wide strips in the AREA of the bend). Once "they" are in postion you can glue the separate "rips" in the AREA (only) back in to the original one strip. Hope you understand the method better, maybe John could clear it up better than I just tried to.

Joe