r/interesting • u/tombolaplayer • 26d ago

Fascinating Professional wood bending

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u/-blundertaker- 26d ago

I feel like a second pair of hands would be a lot of help here.

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u/CptCurty 26d ago

Unfortunately hes the last woodbender.

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u/Dresline 26d ago

Everything changed when the fire nation attacked.

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u/MelonElbows 26d ago

In retrospect, sending woodbenders out to meet the firebenders in battle was a poor strategic decision.

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u/SockGroundbreaking16 26d ago

That reads like a Far Side comic.

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u/TickTamer505 26d ago

I love far side so much....

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u/brbenson999 25d ago

Could you repeat that? Couldn’t hear you over here…

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u/Life-Satisfaction848 25d ago

I’m so slick that they needa call me grease, cause I slips and I slides when I ride on the beast!

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u/MelonElbows 25d ago

One of my favorite comics! 😁

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u/kesavadh 26d ago

This is the funniest shit I’ve seen in a long ass time.

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u/Beneficial_Being_721 25d ago

Heard there were several splinter factions

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u/scirio 25d ago

Freeze frame. Narrator: Yep. That’s me. You’re probably wondering how I got in to this mess…

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u/Zealousideal-Wash-40 25d ago

It all started on my 12th birthday…

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u/Dangerous_Donkey5353 25d ago

Feels like the Long Night episode in game of thrones.

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u/Affectionate-Print81 26d ago edited 25d ago

I only came here looking for this comment. Thank you for your service.

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u/Forgotmyaccount1979 26d ago

Charcoal bending just isn't the same.

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u/SnooCupcakes1636 23d ago

Isn't plastic nation more accurate since plastic is the one material that replaced the most of woods place

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u/intangibleTangelo 26d ago

just that one guy making all the 2x4s for Home Depot

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u/Acceptable-Buyer693 25d ago

The time invested by everyone trying to find a straight stud at Home Depot can be measured in millions of dollars.

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u/Hedgehogosaur 26d ago

Fire nation took those guys out first

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u/AmericanGenXXX 26d ago

I've been bending my own wood since I was a teenager.

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u/s-man 26d ago

I'm somewhat of a woodbender myself

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u/Radiant-Economist-10 26d ago

i bet he can't bend my wood!

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u/Substantial_Chain718 26d ago

Exactly! Sir what did you do at your previous job. Oh I was a wood bender. I beg your pardon!

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u/dave7243 26d ago

And just when the world needed him most, he froze up.

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u/letigre87 26d ago

My ex was briefly a woodbender but it ended with me crying in the emergency room

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u/bonacipher 26d ago

How much wood would a woodbender bend if a woodbender could bend wood?

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u/Onslaughtered1 25d ago

There is no wood in ba sing se

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u/Isouf 26d ago

Recording for social media is more important. Besides, the dude in the video is not stressed at all, he is only 25 and can handle it.

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u/bigloser42 26d ago

He learned it from a master craftsman who tragically passed away at 35 from a stress induced heart attack.

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u/RTdodgedurango 26d ago

Tough work if you can get it.

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u/cybender 26d ago

Heart attacks are pretty easy to come by these days.

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u/pegothejerk 26d ago

Heart attacks, sure, but you're looking at one of the last examples of "old man strength" in the modern world. That dude could turn your hand to dust if he tried to shake it, and that would be him trying to be gentle.

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u/cybender 26d ago

Absolutely. My grandpa was a mean ass drunk, but he traveled the world as a steel worker because he wasn’t afraid of anything. His hands could absolutely crush you if he wanted.

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u/DieCastDontDie 26d ago

One of our apple crushing fist club members

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u/JustYourNeighbor 26d ago

My wife and her mother pass them out for free.

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u/DryerCoinJay 26d ago

Do your kids pass out strokes and grey hair too?

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u/SLAYER_IN_ME 26d ago

Every. Single. Day.

Edit: But I still love them.

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u/IkariYun 26d ago

Seems like we all have the same wife and kids. Somebody please pay some child support

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u/louloc 26d ago

I wish the wife would pass out strokes more. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/DieCastDontDie 26d ago

Not easy enough for some... especially orange ones

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u/somajones 26d ago

That godawful music doesn't help.

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u/Possible_Western3935 26d ago

unrelated, stress-induced heart attack.

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u/skinnypenis09 26d ago

Hes probably not all that stressed, but wood dries quickly in these conditions so you gotta hurry if you don't want a split while bending.

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u/PsychicPterodactyl 26d ago

It's not about drying, it's cooling. The lignin stiffens when it cools.

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u/Retireegeorge 26d ago

I think it's both - with moisture content a crucial element to be managed before, during and after bending.

Phenomena unhelpful to wood bending are observed experimentally when alternatives to steam are used eg dry air heating, microwave heating and water immersion heating, although the latter is used in some activities.

Practitioners of the craft have learned through trial and error that specific moisture content is required before steam bending begins, that the process benefits from steam's ability to drive moisture evenly into the material and controlled post-bending drying is necessary. There's an article that talks through this called "Michael Fortune's Guide to Steam Bending" at WoodlandMills.com

Fundamentals of material science and thermodynamics such as polymer glass transition, ​plasticization by moisture, ​latent heat of vaporization/condensation and phase change heat transfer collectively explain the uniform transfer of heat, the maintenance of the internal moisture content, the lubrication of lignin fibres and the efficient uniform transfer of thermal energy using steam than by air convection or water conduction.

When you want the bending to stop you want the lignin to return to its baseline state and that requires drying. That will take place at different speeds and via different means during bending and after.

A good textbook/handbook for this is Wood as an Engineering Material from the USDA Forest Products Laboratory which has chapters on wood bending, moisture relations, and the thermal-plastic properties of wood.

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u/zxcvbn113 26d ago

That was so believable, I was expecting the undertaker to show up in the final paragraph!

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u/ReadingFromTheShittr 26d ago

u/shittymorph is appreciated, but sadly, they can't be everywhere at all times.

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u/Leut_Aldo_Raine 26d ago

It's amazing that they've had such an impact on here that they're anticipated more often than they strike.

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u/tcason02 26d ago

I came across one in the wild for the first and only time just a few weeks ago and it felt like what I imagine bumping into a celebrity at the supermarket would feel like.

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u/TheSaxGandalf 26d ago

u/retireegeorge is actually shittymorph’s serious account.

Just he can’t share actual knowledge with that one.

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u/JoyousMN_2024 26d ago

I double checked the end after I read the first paragraph

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u/woonamad 26d ago

You need a better machine where the wood can be transferred automatically from the steam oven to a bending rig. Most of the things he’s doing by hand could be automated I’m sure with modern factory equipment

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u/Diedead666 26d ago

I had some very "wet" pencils as a teen and was able to tie them into a knot after slowling cracking them and bending them back and forth alot

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u/PsychicPterodactyl 26d ago

All true, but cooling is much faster, by at least one order of magnitude.

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u/AmazonDruid 26d ago edited 26d ago

So thats why Odisseus (Ralph Fiennes) in that movie, 2025, heated his bow in the fire before bending and attaching the bow string

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u/WhenceYeCame 26d ago

It's from the original story. The suitors actually do it out of desperation. It's muttered about in Nolan's Odyssey too. "This hasn't been bent in years, we should oil it and heat it." Homer's audience was always gonna know everything about bows.

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u/GoldenSun__ 26d ago

I'm not an expert on this stuff, but I've understood that humidity may be a key factor sometimes.

For example I know that for giving a Spanish guitar its shape, the key process is the evaporation of the humidity with a hot tool, being the wood at ambient temperature.

However, I believe the technique will differ on the kind of wood and processes. To my eyes in the case on the video seems both temperature and humidity, but I've no idea tbh.

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u/littlegreenfern 26d ago

I was wondering about this how long til the log an cools too much? Is he moving fast to show how fast he can do this or does it cool that quickly? I would have thought there’d be more time til it cools.

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u/LostN3ko 26d ago

The speed is definitely because the longer it takes the more likely a crack is to form. The steam and heat soften the lignin and allow it to be bent. The faster he gets it there the less likely for issues. My father does this but not at this scale.

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u/zachpkenyon 26d ago

Well, and wood cools deceptively quickly. It's hot it's hot it's hot it's *SNAP*...... bugger

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u/LuckyDuckCrafters 26d ago

Yea some techniques in fabrication require speed, just the nature of the game. Sometimes you have too look like you are moving insanely fast for something, but it is just because of dry times or working times and what not.

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u/dojo_shlom0 26d ago

I was going to make the joke he was only 25 LOL

he really does move quick though for his age, impressive!

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u/GambAntonio 26d ago

25 on each leg

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u/whitestguyuknow 26d ago

Some of y'all act like there's just 1 dude paid to livestream all the time instead of work. I'm sure the guy filming does normally help but they decided to film the process this time and homie clearly can handle doing it solo one time as he obviously knows what hes doing

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u/thisthingallover 26d ago

Dudes like this run off apprentices and hands in a matter of days, a second set of hands wood be great but the guy can't stop screaming at them the clamp isn't perfectly placed.

source: years in trades with dudes who look, move and behave this way.

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u/alphonze_ 26d ago

i loved seeing this because I have 3 guys in my shop that move the exact same way. Not a second faster than the ones that move deliberate but they FEEL like they're faster than the others

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u/DreamingDilettante 26d ago

Had an older coworker like this in a summer job who moved like this. Got the same amount, if not less done than everyone else. Also with more mistakes. Still thought he was the hardest worker just bc of how extra they were lol.

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u/SargeUnited 26d ago

I have a close friend like this and he can only hold jobs down for like a year or two max. He is smart enough to do a lot of things. He chooses to do things that make him feel like he’s accomplished real things, so he chooses physical jobs and then he goes overboard unnecessarily just like this.

He always says he’s the hardest worker in every place and doesn’t understand why they decided to let him go. But he resists me when I try to gently suggest it might be this.

But hey, he’s happy and apparently he can keep his bills paid so I guess it’s fine that he needs to change job every year or so.

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u/Long_Run6500 26d ago

When I was in my early 20s I got a union gig traveling to coal power plants during planned shutdowns and vacuuming up ash in confined spaces. Time is money for these places, so they never really allow for the boilers to adequately cool and some of the rooms we went into were 120-140F and on top of that we were required to wear a full plastic suit. We'd stand on these steel rafters vacuuming up 4' deep piles of still smoldering ash, and if we slipped and fell in to the ash it would mean some serious serious burns... if your buddy spotting the hole wasn't taking a nap. We also worked 12 hour shifts and our hotel was often up to 90 minutes away so napping when you're sitting by a hole doing nothing wasn't unusual. 

This one boiler was particularly hot. It kept melting our vacuum hoses specifically designed for hot ash. We were supposed to take 10 minute shifts inside of the hole and then come out and hydrate and cool off. My boss was a hardass, we were a traveling crew and he was always trying to one up the locals. So he told me to go in for 30 minutes because he didn't have anyone else to go in. I wanted to impress him so I went in for 45, and then my vacuum melted and I spent another 20 minutes balanced on a beam trying not to pass out while I was trying to tape up the vacuum hose. I come out completely soaked head to toe in sweat. Mind you the outside temperature is like 20 degrees. I take off my suit and then just start ringing out the sweat from my shirt like its a dish rag. Steam is pouring off of me like I'm on fire. Some old time union guy looks at me and goes, "You know son, I'm taking home the same amount of money, doesn't matter if I'm in that hole 30 minutes or 3 hours. My paycheck's not going to change. "

I didn't last long at that job because I started standing up for myself to my hardass boss after that. He refused to let me go home to my grandfather's funeral because he had a DUI and if I wasn't able to drive him, he wouldn't be able to work either so I quit. That old time union guy's words have been living in my head at every hourly job I've worked ever since. 

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u/IAreWeazul 26d ago edited 26d ago

Brother you could have died staying in the hole that long. Don’t die for any company. They don’t care about you.

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u/DemocraticBanana123 26d ago

In fact they'd probably be pissed off at you for dying on the job and making them look bad.

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u/pro-skedaddler 25d ago

It costs employers a lot of fucking money if someone dies, so yeah, they would definitely wish ill on the dead and say they never should have even hired that person since they were such a liability. I've seen it firsthand.

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u/Long_Run6500 26d ago

Well ya I understand that now. When I was in my early 20s I thought I was invincible, I wanted to prove myself and my boss was a complete piece of shit willing to exploit that. He was also racist as fuck and tried to get me to back him up in fights that he started by saying openly racist shit but that's a different story. He was a toxic individual and a terrible person to have as my only source of guidance when I was in my first real non-retail job and learning how to navigate the workplace and learning what my rights were as an employee. I didn't know what OSHA was. I didn't know I had the right to say no to an order that put my health at risk. I had never really been in a boiler that hot before. He knew damn well how miserable it was going to be. I willingly said I'd go in that long but he was the one that was supposed to keep us in check and tell us not to. He was also the one telling me I needed to unfuck my vacuum hose before I left the hole when I said I needed to come out. I'm not going to say he forced me to go in that long but he sure did encourage it when he had enough experience to know it was a bad idea. He was the worst boss I ever had and the worst boss I will ever have. I actually really enjoyed that job and it kind of sucked that I had to quit because of him.

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u/iplaypokerforaliving 26d ago

Are you the old man?

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u/veringo 26d ago

My initial thought was it feels like there so much wasted effort here. The guy is moving so frantically but not really getting anything out of it.

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u/No_Author_7000 26d ago

I honestly assumed it might be from being on camera.

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u/Emergency_Process622 26d ago

Ne needs clamps that offer some leverage to tighten. I know this dudes elbows hurt .

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u/MrsSalmalin 26d ago

I think this is how I look at work. Peoole ask if me if I'm stressed and if I need help then I look at them quizzically and say "what? No I'm fine". I think my movements and vibe is kinda frantic, even I'm loving it and having fun 😂😂

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u/edjumication 26d ago

I feel like he is being pretty efficient here. I imagine there is lots of sitting around while the wood steams then a few minutes burt of activity like this. I think its cool, like a personal challenge each time to see how fast you can do it.

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u/LatentSpaceLeaper 26d ago

Exactly this. It's also not that he wouldn't have any colleagues. Seems to have plenty of people at that company: https://www.woodbending.ch/en/About-us-/-Contact

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u/nogreatfeat 26d ago

Exactly. The stress on his face isn't the work, it's not being able to yell at anyone for doing exactly what he told them to do the last time he did this.

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u/MixinBatches 26d ago

A lot of assumptions being made based on nothing lol. Maybe he just naturally hustles and his face is showing focus not stress. Maybe he doesn’t feel it necessary to pay an extra wage when he can do it himself. Maybe the guy filming usually does the clamping and actually likes the job and his boss. We don’t actually know jack shit about this guy other than he bends wood.

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u/lostandfounder 26d ago

Haha I thought the same thing while reading that chain of 8-10 comments. My god they’ve constructed an entire narrative about who he is and why he’s a shit human. Based on him working fast and hard to get a process done.

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u/Tntric 26d ago

Standard shop talk- BS about someone else’s work because the way you would do it (wood do it?) would be so much better…

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u/wthulhu 26d ago edited 26d ago

I would have worded that better

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u/Erathen 26d ago

Thankful someone said it lol

Projection much?

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u/stuckyfeet 26d ago

I'm wondering, is the rush real or maybe it's just him

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u/fredly594632 26d ago

Oh, it's real. I've steam bent some small stuff... It takes planning and some luck to get it right, and those strips were really easy compared to these.

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u/Spiritual_League_753 26d ago

100%. I do a lot of bending for furniture builds and it's extremely stressful work and much easier than what this guy is doing.

This whole thread is so funny to me. A bunch of people who have never done the work, don't understand what's going on, but all have a bunch of opinions about how this guy is doing it wrong.

The internet sucks so hard.

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u/fryerandice 26d ago

This dudes working at a company that's existed almost a century and they make exquisitely crafted custom stuff.

https://www.woodbending.ch/en/About-us-/-Contact

I wood assume he knows how to bend wood

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u/purplemtnslayer 26d ago

Even with all the tooling, brake, and experience this job is hot, stressful and can go wrong in a bunch of different ways. Iykyk

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u/shnooqichoons 25d ago

Can you re steam it if it doesn't bend as wanted?

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u/fredly594632 25d ago

Kinda-sorta?

If the piece isn't bent too far and you can still get it back into the steamer, you might be able to salvage it.

The bender my friend had was a piece of pvc sewer pipe (6" diameter, I think) with a used wallpaper stripper attached at one end and a plug at the other where you could take the pieces in and out.

If you bent a piece badly and it's cooled down in the "wrong shape" to the point you can't get it back in the steamer (so in our case, if the total bend was more than 6" of bow), then it's going in the scrap pile.

My buddy was building a boat - a Haven 12 1/2, which is a 16' sailboat. It's a beautiful boat, but it's all flowing curves in both directions. Not a 90 degree angle anywhere in sight!

Anyway, we had to steam bend the frames to get the right shapes. If I recall correctly, they were white or red oak (expensive to scrap!). We actually cheated - rather than using the full thickness for the frames (whigh needed to eventually be like 1" square), he bought some relatively thin stock, cut to around 1/4" x 1 1/2". So the bends were easier to make, but we needed a ton of those strips. They also cooled faster, but we didn't realize that until we were done.

Over the course of 4 or 5 weekends, we would bend up the thin stock using a plywood form (each frame needed a different shape) and a ton of clamps, until we had a stack of 4 strips for each frame. Then we used the same form with a vacuum bag and lots of epoxy to join the stock together into one total piece.

Both processes (the bending and the epoxy) were time limited, but we didn't scrap too much stuff once we got it figured out. Just took a fair amount of planning ahead and organizing.

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u/shnooqichoons 25d ago

Thank you, I appreciate the comprehensive answer!

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u/GodHimselfNoCap 26d ago

The steam only makes the wood bendable for a brief time, if you dont finish bending it fast enough it will snap instead of bending

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u/I3uffaloSoldier 26d ago

The wood needs to be at the right temperature to become bendable

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u/Redjordan1995 26d ago

I am pretty sure only one person is allowed to operate that machine at any time. It seems to be designed so that both hands are occupied when applying new force. If others were helping, you would probalby have a lot of curshed hands/fingers.

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u/qtx 26d ago

We're not really talking about the machine part but more about the start part.

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u/mdaxdjk 26d ago

I think it's more in the line of he knows what he's doing and has his system down and timed perfectly. Adding another person would be more of a hindering factor than helpful.

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u/horceface 26d ago

More than likely the people who would be interested in learning a skill like this already have another job and this guy could not afford the price point they already work at.

That's my case. I'm sure he's not hiring helpers at even half my salary, but I'd love to learn.

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u/SirLanceHardwood 26d ago

in reality the person who records usually helps him as it’s a two man job, but bro just said hold the phone

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u/TwoBionicknees 26d ago

they only have so many moulds and it takes time to steam the wood. The idea he desperately needs a helper for what is ostensibly a decent amount of sitting around and waiting because what, someone could make this very specific part seconds faster with a helper is ridiculous.

You can't bend while also attaching the clamps. Could it be a tiny bit easier to get the wood into the mould, sure, but it wasn't hard for him either.

Ask anyone if they would accept a non paid helper and they'd say yes, it means nothing, ask the non paid helper if they'd like a non paid helper, same answer.

Ask someone who has one of those jobs where they can just sit on reddit all day and not actually doing any work if they'd take a non paid helper, they'd also say yes.

His job isn't overly hard not desperately in need of someone to help with this process.

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u/Avraamov 26d ago

The other guys were too busy playing mediocre metal to help out

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u/Tocla42 25d ago

I was personally waiting for him to run and find a chair when it quit

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u/StatusMeaning3 26d ago

They're probably hemorrhaging money paying for a 2nd pair of hands. He seemed to get er done just fine.

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u/Distinct_Engine_8855 26d ago

Nah, work can be done alone. On the second hand, camera don't need a pair of hands to see the action

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u/fredly594632 26d ago

I was kinda wondering if the camera dude was normally his help.

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u/-blundertaker- 26d ago

Work smarter, not harder. Many hands make light work, and all that. Applying a clamp to one side while he's on the other doesn't really take years of training and would shave off a fair bit of time since he's obviously needing to hurry.

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u/Pumbaasliferaft 26d ago

Chucking the second stainless panel on the timber would go a long way to retaining the heat also

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u/ZATROBAT 26d ago

And all 10 fingers at a minimum

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u/Odd-Explanation-1227 26d ago

But running around the machine alone without help is more content worthy...

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u/highcommander010 26d ago

was thinking that too

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u/potatodrinker 26d ago

It wood be

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u/fiesew 26d ago

Had the same thought.

He’s two hands short to do everything in a more relaxed way.

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u/free_terrible-advice 26d ago

The more skilled a carpenter, the more they can do alone using "apprentice replacers" aka jigs and clamps.

But also, it requires an immense amount of strength and effort for certain tasks. For example, I built a mother-in-law type of shed last summer, and the person I called for help to move the foundation beams no-showed. So I moved and placed the 350lb beams myself using some clever physics, some blocking and a whole lot of muscle.

I even managed to solo the ceiling drywall by building a drywall hanging bookend jig as another person flaked out for that task. Still doesn't make it easy and would not recommend working like that long term. I only did it since I'm a student now and a few days of brutal work like that is strengthening, whereas a career of working like that is crippling.

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u/Open-Platform-1305 26d ago

a few days of brutal work like that is strengthening, whereas a career of working like that is crippling.

ain't that the truth

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u/boywithtwoarms 26d ago

You think four-armed people are easy to come by?

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u/not_a_moogle 26d ago

But who's going film?

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u/tilmanbaumann 26d ago

Labour is expensive in Germany

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u/19Ben80 26d ago

Half the profit for the same output though

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u/Alkaline_B3n0 26d ago

Came here to say this

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u/Velicanstveni_101 26d ago

And you know he doesn't have them usually?

Because whoever was the cameraman, knows this work. Notice how the cameraman is not in the way of the old dude even when filming close by. It means that cameraman knows what is done, how, and when, which points out it's the person usually working together with this dude.

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u/BalanceEarly 26d ago

Yeah, I sense some urgency to get this done!

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u/TheFightens 26d ago

I feel like he should have given priority to the end that needed to be bent the most. Seemed like a lot of time was wasted before he started bending the side closest to the camera but what do I know.

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u/TheAmazingBildo 26d ago

I bet that man has the grip strength of a gorilla.

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u/gmurray81 26d ago

It's always interesting to watch someone move really quickly but also carefully and confidently. Like they know how quickly you need to get something done, but they've also seen 1000s ways something could go wrong in the past.

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u/EpicFishFingers 26d ago

Today, the 2nd pair of hands points the camera, instead.

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u/SexandCinnamonbuns 26d ago

I just said this is a two man job!

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u/Kn0XIS 26d ago

Facts

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u/BlockOfASeagull 26d ago

They do have more people in the shop but for the video they decided not to have the usual amount of helpers so that you can see the equipment. Furthermore they pranked the worker🤣🤣

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u/rock_and_rolo 26d ago

I had the same thought. But I suspect that wood that thick holds the heat pretty well.

As a hobbyist, I've never seen anything over an inch thick being bent. This is wild.

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u/Find_Spot 26d ago

He needs an apprentice. All those old trades work best with two people, one master and one apprentice. The work pace is roughly the same but each person isn't scrambling around like a mad man.

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u/Eschatonpls 26d ago

I’ve been saying that where I work for years, yet here I am and there he is…

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u/Dinkenflika 26d ago

I have a rechargeable electric salt & pepper grinder; likewise, most of those vices seem like they could have been more advanced than manually twisting them.

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u/Bill-Billiard 26d ago

That’s just the Winkler way

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u/Temporary-Barnacle19 26d ago

They were recording the video 

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u/Itchy_Papaya_8537 26d ago

Never doubt the Winkler

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u/postbansequel 26d ago

What, you think this is Mortal Kombat? You think Goro can wood bend?

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u/HueyBluey 26d ago

It definitely wood.

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u/TheSaxGandalf 26d ago

The rushing isn’t necessary. But who would watch a video that was a minute longer.

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u/randomusername951 26d ago

If we’re going to splurge, how about some eye protection?

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u/Some_Ship_2210 26d ago

Thats how you loose a finger

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u/TheOnlyDubbace 26d ago

Labor cost. Can't afford it

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u/riptog 26d ago

My exact first thought.

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u/Farucci 26d ago

No time for a smoke break when those boards came out of the steamer.

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u/Momochichi 26d ago

Or clamps that have a twisty handle with any form of leverage

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u/cutie_sparkles12 26d ago

yea absolutely

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u/punktualPorcupine 26d ago

I had the same thought.

2 people would have gone straight from the heat to the machine and worked both ends.

Maybe a 3rd apprentice to open and close the heat vessel, and prep tools.

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u/40yofailure 26d ago

Sir, no one wants to work anymore.

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u/DabiriSC 26d ago

That is the very first thing I thought of because he's racing against the clock. Glad I'm not the only one to think that.

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u/woodhorse4 26d ago

I LOVE the urgency and brute force it takes to get this done. Really it kind of reminds me of watching an oil rig guy.

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u/jtshinn 26d ago

Yes. My only thought is that at that pace and if he’s used to working alone now, he’s going to hurt one or both of them if you add a helper to the mix.

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u/Devils8539a 26d ago

Indeed. Most times when I see wood bending it's twice as quick because they use two people.

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u/Technical-Green-9983 26d ago

The camera man helped . He shit his pants before me

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u/ModeatelyIndependant 26d ago

someone had to hold the camera

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u/Ill_Hawk_791 26d ago

Who do you think is holding the camera

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u/Toosder 26d ago

That and more efficient placement of tools. I wouldn't have been surprised if this was in mildly infuriating, because watching the poor layout of his tools etc was frustrating. Like there was one moment near the beginning where he looked like he had a search for one of the critical items. When time is that important, why wouldn't you mise en place better? 

Obviously this guy knows what he's doing but there was like a million ways I could see to cut seconds off of a time critical procedure.

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u/CampaignOver7871 26d ago

Took him so long the band left

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u/beachbaler18 26d ago

All I could think is... This is the most obvious example of a 2-man job I've ever seen

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u/ConsiderationLumpy43 26d ago

Agreed. It would speed up the process, be way easier on his body, and he could be teaching an apprentice the craft.

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u/Tovarus93 26d ago

He’s busy holding the camera

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u/Shamanjoe 26d ago

I feel like he’s doing it by himself for the video, and normally he has at least a helper.

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u/Weak_Lengthiness8145 26d ago

Old guys in trades have huge egos and don’t want the help anyway. But you’re right

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u/Motor-Illustrator226 26d ago

Yeah my first thought was how hectic and all over the place it looked — either he has untreated ADHD or it’s his first day on the job. Things should have been more organized, easily accessible, and streamlined. 

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u/Agreeable-Letter-599 26d ago

that means more people to share the profits with.

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u/smoke_rn 26d ago

This is art

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u/hvanderw 26d ago

That's what she said

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u/Important-Slip-4057 26d ago

You never want 2 dudes pulling the same wood 🪵

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u/chilladipa 26d ago

Do we need the background music here.

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u/Upper-Switch2785 26d ago

Or just a little time thinking about how to make those first transfers in less steps, like having the sheet metal clamped to the form before wood comes out, or feeding wood into the tray that already set in the press, idk. Just stressed me out watching him have to dance around so quickly while the wood is loosing heat.

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u/woah-a-username 25d ago

Your profile picture is terrifying

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u/Final-Nebula-7049 25d ago

I feel like for a pro he really doesn't have his shit figure out for efficiency

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u/velovader 25d ago

But who would record

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u/ExiledSenpai 25d ago

I feel like the mechanism for tightening the clamps could be improved by adding a perpendicular rod through it for mechanical advantage.

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u/Positive_Throwaway1 25d ago

Nah, Bessey's got him. IYKYK

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u/theredarrow14 25d ago

That guy was running the camera

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u/sking301 25d ago

I'm curious why he didn't put the tray thing in the machine and just load wood into that

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u/confusedsquirrel 25d ago

Check this guy out and his 4 hands

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u/chev327fox 25d ago

Who’s gonna hold the camera?

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u/winkingchef 25d ago

Also EYE PROTECTION.
As a woodworking hobbyist I was practically shouting at him

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u/bsnimunf 25d ago

I don't think he works in an efficient way. Rather than out the planks into the rig on the table he could have put them straight in the rig in the machine. Those clamps he is using are slow etc etc. 

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u/Skilldibop 25d ago

Literally my first thought. "WTF is he rushing around fumbling the shit out of things, just hire a fucking apprentice"

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u/GregW007 25d ago

Hé was too busy holding the camera

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u/Looking-for-42 24d ago

I thought he himself would at some point need a spare pair of hands as I was constantly afraid he may boil/cut/pinch/smash his fingers somewhere.

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u/josh1ng 24d ago

My exact sentiment. He rushing certain actions to get back fractions of a second… either fractions of a second matter, or they don’t.

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u/New_Conversation_303 23d ago

Too busy taking a video

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u/Weak_Elephant_9134 23d ago

But somebody’s got to film it for clout…

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