Steaming wood with plastic bags?!

[joachimM]

Here's an original approach to steaming wood directly in place (or adjusting larger pieces).
http://www.core77.com/posts/35838/A-Better-Way-to-Steam-Wood-for-Bending-Use-a-Plastic-Bag
For bow making this approach seems especially useful if you have a caul.

Joachim

[johnfolchetti]

Pretty slick.

[arachnid]

That is way cool.
I got to give it a try..... I don`t have good sucsess with bending boards, I think this method might work.

[paulsemp]

that's awesome, I'm going to have to give that a go. thank you for posting that link

[paco664]

and because the bag is so thin you don't have to remove the wood... thereby giving more working time...

smart... really smart...

[Tree_Ninja]

Smart. I had read somewhere that the first nations would use bull kelp to steam their yew bows. This method seems less smelly.

[Drewster]

That looks like it's worth a try.  I may "park" my steam pipe setup and give that a go.  I really like the time is could save transferring the wood to the caul......sweet.

[ajooter]

Very cool may have to give that a go!

[JW_Halverson]

Yankee ingenuity.

[bubby]

where could you get a roll of that plastic bag

[Drewster]

where could you get a roll of that plastic bag

Buddy, per a response at the end of the video page, Uline.com sells the roll material.......the 6 mil is recommended.  Dang, it come in a 1000' roll.  Several of us could share a roll :-)

[DC]

If you go to a shop that sells fiberglass sometimes they package it in poly tubes like that. I got about twenty feet for the asking. It was bigger, about 12" wide but it may work.

[tallpine]

Thanks for sharing that Joachim, that's really brilliant. The second video would be exactly how you would bend a stave over a caul. I have some super heavy duty,large contractor trash backs that would work if I can figure a way to narrow them up into a sealed tube, Duct tape maybe? I like this idea, I'm going to do some experimenting with this.

[Tree_Ninja]

An expensive option are the  vacuum sealing bags for food savr.It is  already a long tube . I'm too cheap to do that, but they'd be durable.

[wapiti1997]

It's not as thick, but diaper genie bags might work?