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Re: Try a heat gun
By:Bill Hamm
Date: 9/30/2009, 1:59 am
In Response To: Try a heat gun (Kudzu)

: I have been bending some 3mm ply using a heat gun lately. It will break on
: the tight curve but I can take the heat gun and heat it as I go and I can
: feel it 'loosen up' as I hold the end. I have always heard it was the
: heat, not the steam or water that made the wood give. I don't know but the
: heat gun works on ply.

Works on strips too. Steam bending isn't about the water, it's about the heat.

Bill H.

Messages In This Thread

Skin-on-Frame: Another boat launched *LINK* *Pic*
Dave Gentry -- 9/28/2009, 8:44 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Another boat launched
Bill Hamm -- 9/30/2009, 7:15 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Another boat launched
kelly t -- 9/30/2009, 5:57 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Another boat launched *Pic*
Dave Gentry -- 9/30/2009, 6:21 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Another boat launched
West -- 10/1/2009, 4:42 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Another boat launched *Pic*
Dave Gentry -- 10/2/2009, 12:08 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Another boat launched
West -- 10/4/2009, 2:15 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Another boat launched
Bill Hamm -- 10/5/2009, 12:36 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Another boat launched
Sean -- 9/29/2009, 9:21 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Another boat launched
Tom Yost -- 9/29/2009, 9:10 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Another boat launched
Andy Waddington -- 9/29/2009, 8:48 am
Try a heat gun
Kudzu -- 9/29/2009, 1:11 pm
Re: Try a heat gun
Bill Hamm -- 9/30/2009, 1:59 am
Looks Great!!! *NM*
Pawistik -- 9/28/2009, 11:36 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Another boat launched
Peter B -- 9/28/2009, 11:02 am
Another pic *NM* *Pic*
Dave Gentry -- 9/28/2009, 8:45 am
Re: Another pic
Clayton Plunkett -- 9/28/2009, 9:02 am