Date: 10/9/2002, 8:46 pm
: I routinely bend eighth inch thick spruce laminations for guide boat ribs and
: canoe stems, using an imported 1680-watt heat gun run on high. It is very
: easy to over bend the strips, and sometimes I have to bend them back. You
: can almost tie knots in them. The flat grain spruce is cut from ordinary
: lumberyard spruce construction 2-by stock, with no wetting. I used to use
: steam and hot soaking - with the heat gun, I can bend up a complete stack
: of laminations before the steamer is even warmed up, and I don't have to
: wait a day or two for the strips to dry out before gluing. The bends are
: tighter, and I get absolutely no springback. I am a believer.... - John
That's great that you are able to make do with laminating thin strips. Just out of curiousity why do you use soft and weak spruce when white oak is much stronger , bends easier and is rot resistant?
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- Tools: Heat Gun temperature?
Terry Hanson -- 10/9/2002, 11:47 am- Re: Tools: Heat Gun temperature?
Rob Macks -- 10/10/2002, 9:30 am- The very best info on steam bending is...
Bruce Haugen -- 10/9/2002, 11:35 pm- Re: The very best info on steam bending is...
Rick Allnutt -- 10/10/2002, 10:22 am- I second that!
Kent LeBoutillier -- 10/10/2002, 6:24 am - I second that!
- Re: Tools: Heat Gun temperature?
Rick Allnutt -- 10/9/2002, 1:43 pm- Re: Bending Spruce *Pic*
Mike Hanks -- 10/9/2002, 5:39 pm- Re: Bending Spruce
West -- 10/9/2002, 6:33 pm- Re: Bending Spruce
Mike Hanks -- 10/9/2002, 9:18 pm- Re: Bending Spruce
West -- 10/9/2002, 11:04 pm- Re: Bending Spruce
Mike Hanks -- 10/10/2002, 2:29 am- and that link is - - - -
West -- 10/9/2002, 11:06 pm - and that link is - - - -
- Spruce Goose
Tom -- 10/9/2002, 10:40 pm- Re: Spruce Goose
Mike Hanks -- 10/10/2002, 2:39 am- Re: Spruce Goose
Simon Baillie -- 10/12/2002, 12:55 pm
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- Re: Bending Spruce
- Re: Bending Spruce *Pic*
John Michne -- 10/9/2002, 7:12 pm- Re: Bending Spruce
West -- 10/9/2002, 8:46 pm
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- The very best info on steam bending is...
- Re: Tools: Heat Gun temperature?