He’s been experimenting with making flexible wood. We’ve all probably seen wood cut with slots added to allow flexibility in a single direction, but did you know with the use of lattice ...

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 ...

Little is known of the most ancient devices for bending wood, but the oldest patented in England is now nearly a century old, and is used there yet for some purposes. The oldest in the United ...

The wood is then bendable, and it must be somewhat durable since the idea came from a product that uses the technique as a hinged notebook enclosure. We don’t have much interest in it as an ...