A New Way To BEND Wood? // Woodworking 

You're doing a lot of interesting stuff that I've never seen woodworkers do before. That trick with the blue tape and rubbing the paint off the side of a pencil is fucking brilliant.

BRILLIANT. For something to become a 'thing' it needs a name. So in respect to your excellent creativity, we should refer to this method as being a WRIGHT CURVE.

I'm just realizing your 18, dude you're killing it.

I found you through Reels and glad I did! I’ve been experimenting with kerf bending lately as well and I love the wedge idea. Looking forward to watching your other videos 🙌🏻

That planter's beautiful man. Thanks for sharing this with us.

This was awesome. So many tips for me, and not only for kerf bending, which I'll try some day.

Turned out nice. I always appreciate seeing a project video. Thanks for sharing.

I love that serving tray. I might have to give that a go sometime. Definitely make some good use of a lot of smaller scraps when it comes to the wedges.

Using the wedges to make the bend is a novel approach, and it's brilliant. Well done!

You’ve a real talent there. Great to see a young person doing such great work. Keep on learning and being creative.

WOW!!! Fantastic! Great idea, thank you for sharing.

Very nice Josh. I am always very happy to see young people working with their entire hand instead of just their thumbs! I hope you inspire others to do the same.

Impressive and very creative, you never stop learning in woodworking.

Hi Josh, love your enthusiasm and creativity, keep the woodwork juices flowing mate your craft will reward you in time to come, from the land down under Cheers mate.

That... is a pretty awesome project. The best ones are the simple ones, and this is very simple. Ingenious! Great job, great presentation. I can't wait to see what else you come up with. Thanks!

I hope that I will be getting a new table saw in the new year. Thank you for giving me my first two projects. Well worth the sub.

Thanks for the video bud!! Both projects looks great 👍🏼

Love your creativity and your honesty as you build. It's very reassuring for new builders. Great job!

That planter is beautiful!!!

Very creative and nicely executed. I love how you own mistakes; that’s how you learn. Great job

I'm going to have to try this out, Josh. Using wedges to form a bend is ingenious! That's a lot easier than bent lamination or steam bending.

I super love theses as I also seen them on the shorts. Super great video!

Beautiful job. Thanks for sharing the video.

What a very cleaver technique! And the projects are awesome! Thanks much for the great video!

I appreciate the way your mind works.

Excellent design, execution, and voice-over instruction.

You are a true artist of your craft.

This is the kind of wood working video I like. You picked a project to demonstrate the skill and you explained what you were doing and why. I have been aware of this method in furniture with out the wedges that gives the curves stuibulity. I can take this and use it on any project. I have so many videos where the maker cuts some thing that can follow as he makes his cut then holds it in side of the focus ranges of his camera result in a blurred picture and I make an appointment with my eye doctor. Thank you for an interesting project well presented.

Dude....freaking awesome. You're my hero!

I am so glad you made this video! I’ve been racking my brain on how to make some bent trim for the end of a rounded countertop and this I think will work perfectly 😀😀

Awesome work, Josh!

Wow. These are amazing. You are very talented 👏

Love the creative design, keep at it!

Amazing work. Really great!

I'm going to have to try something like this. Great work!

Loved the proces and the technique, the result was beautiful. if you don't mind I want to try this myself too!

Bloody hell, that is brilliant mate.

Amazing work Josh .

Great idea. Admire your honesty in what you consider your mistakes. Still looks good to me. thks

This is cool! Dude, you got some awesome ideas 👏 I gotta try this out

That's very well thought through Josh. So I may have a go at this, thanks, Stewart, south west Australia.

Здравствуйте! Как же приятно смотреть на людей с золотыми руками! Крепкого вам здоровья и вдохновения.

X alent job very well done nice to see quality workmanship

Damn, I friggin love that idea!! Thanks for sharing!

Wow that’s amazing great work

Beautiful work.

Great job. way to think out of the box 👍👍👍

Really well done.

👏👏👏 استعداد خوبی داری، آفرین جوان ❤❤❤🌹🌹🌹

you sir are an absolute legend!!!

I didn't know wood could do that.... This is brilliant!

This is pretty ingenious.

Love your work 👍

I hope your dad is really proud of you, I would be. I got into sheet metal and followed in my dads and became a mechanical engineer. I now have a small carpentry shop. My son had planned on moving to my state, but fate intervened. I’ve watched a bunch of your videos and even taught this ole boy a few things. Keep it up.

Josh, Like I said in the shorts, I see an incoming stool with these builds. I like the planter a lot. The trim at the top steps it up to a nice finish. The heavy round over works very well. I can even see this being the base for a glass coffee table. Or a face front to a cabinet or desk.

Neat stuff! I kinda' liked the tray before the second bend. Just the bent-wood around the edge was pretty cool already, and gives you a nice flat tray. Adding in the second bend kinda' cuts down on the flat surface area for carrying things. But it sure does look cool! Maybe have one of each as a set: a flat one for carrying drinks, and a curved bottom for.. fruit, or chips, or something. I had already seen the planter short video; that one is cool as heck!! Thanks for the longer how-to version. So many possibilities with this technique; I look forward to finding more of your videos.

You are a genious, great job 💫

Excellent work!

This is great man beautiful job you deserve 10 thumbs up thanks man

Great job Josh love love the planter. Next time make everybody happy and make wooden plant lol

Good stuff! I like that!

Very nice projects Great video

You’re an artist

Hey brother great job on all you do. Maybe you could offer some advice on the planter. When you cut the kerfs at 3/8” apart is the 3/8’s on center or the left or right of the previous kerf cut when lining up at the 3/8 mark. Thanks in advance.

This is stupidly obvious and yet I am absolutely beside myself with envy for not thinking of it myself. Great job!

I like it. Pretty clever. Cool piece

Superb job bro.... nice idea....

Awesome design

Josh, Very creative, my friend! So, where do you come up with these ideas? Thanks for sharing. Felix

Nice work!

Amazing ideas!

That is so cool and I have never seen the wedges used in kerf bending. This technique leads to so many new ideas. And so many woodworkers will be having fun experimenting with this technique. One other thing that will be interesting, how long will it take other more well known woodworkers to incorporate your ideas into their videos? Thanks. I am subscribing and keep them coming. Really cool stuff!

nicely done I used a very similar method to fit skirting board on my bay window:-)

Great work.

Really creative work man. U should make a table saw sled. It will serve you better for reproducing small pieces and will also help reduce risk of kickback when processing smaller blocks. I really like your work and your editing.

This is absolutely great, I wanted to make this for my mom's birthday next month, I was wondering what width you set the fence at on your table saw?

Very cool tray

Awesome creativity

Impressive piece for the planter How dimension is the piece of wood ? I want to try it !!! Thanks for sharing

I think you could use glue for the planter, just not everywhere. Use it only on the bottom on some slots and only at the top on some others (and wedge those in from the other side), that way you'd only get minimal squeeze out and it should hopefully be manageable.

Super cool. 👍

La elaboración de estas piezas, es muy laboriosa, pero el resultado (en manos expertas) es excelente. Es de suponerse, que no siendo fabricadas en serie, son piezas casi exclusivas y justificaría el valor que se les asigne.😂 Felicitaciones.

your recent success is really awesome to see, but not at all surprising. you aren't afraid to try new things and experiment - and make it all seem attainable for the average person. real great stuff, as always.

The planter is beautiful! What size board did you do the coving in to?

That’s a really sexy plant pot there man.

Very cool bro! I gotta try this planter! +1subscriber

Brilliant

That's amazing! You have a gift. How long did it truly take?

This is fascinating. You are such a gifted young man and I enjoy all your videos. I had watched your short video on this and had been waiting for a more detailed build video. One question - @2:45 (roughly) you are using the alder piece for the wedges. Do you use about same thickness as the main pine board or do you use a slightly thicker one? Thanks and keep sharing more inspiring videos.

🤯 WOW!!! 🤩

I'm going to add one more thing: You have a Hercules miter saw. I was foolish enough to purchase the Bosch GCM12SD, possibly the most expensive miter saw available. I wanted it so that I could put it closer to the wall in my small shop, and thought the parallelogram was better than the slide. When I got it home I realized that it had no laser or LED to show the blade position. I almost took it back because of that, but had a contract that had to be done, so kept it. Since I have learned that Bosch says, "Well, you can by an after-market laser washer" that fits on the spinning blade shaft. If you've ever used a Dewalt miter saw you know the LED is WAY better than the laser, shows both sides of the blade and doesn't require that the blade be spinning. So I put on $21 sewing machine LED, that had to be customized to work properly, on the most expensive miter saw. The LED works great. Then, just last week, I tried to use the depth stop to cut a dado. The stop is a joke. There is so much play in the parallelogram linkage that the depth of the dado varies about 1/8" depending on how much pressure you put on the handle. I tried to get it consistent, but couldn't do it well enough to be acceptable. The dado jig I had for my router was not big enough because the dado was at an acute angle, so made a fixture for my table saw. After seeing you do those consistent depth cuts, I'm thinking I should sell my Bosch and get the Hercules. I just checked, and it satisfies all my needs: 12" (I need to cut 4x4's pretty often), dual bevel (I think I could do with one side bevel), sliding, with good ratings, even from the "Den of Tools" that I trust, and for $250 less than the Bosch. Bosch should be ashamed. I'm ashamed that I fell for their hype. After all, it was only $80 more than the Dewalt, and HAD to be better!!!!

Josh , 👌👌👌you are a very talented and gifted artist 😊 greetings from India and i am your new sub🙏thank you so very much for your tutorial .

Show de bola meu amigo parabéns pelo seu trabalho ganhou mais um inscrito e deixo aquele like valeu👍🏻👍🏻💯💯🤝

Bravo belle réalisation merci pour le partage t bonne continuation 😂

Thanks for the awesome video. Are you using a regular or thin kerf saw blade when you cut the kerfs foe the wedges? Thanks again, Bill

Dang! it's beautifull

Sooooooooo impressive

Awesome!

I was kinda wondering if using a clear epoxy would work on the planter. Then you could just use clear epoxy as a finish coat as well...

Bluesmasterelf said it, "This is senior level work." I saw one other bent project that cut kerfs but bent to the inside of the project where they couldn't be seen. He used 7-layer plywood, didn't say the thickness (looked like 18mm) with the kerfs cutting through all but the last two layers. He didn't use any water, but that seems like a good idea. You are using solid wood and leaving "about 1/16" if I heard you correctly, but each species of wood you could use would have different bending characteristics and require some testing. He used construction adhesive in all the kerfs when he bent it because the kerfs didn't show in the finished product. He didn't have to make precision wedges that had to fit in the bottom of the kerfs. He said that he did a couple of tests to make sure the kerf spacing was "just right." Who knows what "just right" even means. You didn't say how many tries you made or the math involved for you to get the radii you wanted. He said nothing about he figured out the pitch of the kerfs either. The kerf width would be an important variable, and neither of you said anything about kerf width. I'm assuming you wanted a wider kerf, so used a standard 1/8" blade. His had points on the side so was using a cross-cut blade (he didn't have to make a joint at the bottom of the kerf) and your kerf bottoms look square, so must be using a rip blade. This looks like a project that I would like to try, so will be trying to work out the math needed to make the radius that I want. This is the first video of yours that I've seen. It is impressive enough that you get a like and a subscribe. I pass out likes fairly often, but subscribes don't happen until I've usually seen several videos. How much do you think you could get for one of those serving trays? Very well done. I, too, like one of your commenters below, enjoy your way of presenting, with the truthful admission of errors, and sufficient verbiage to follow your learning curve. Learning curves are something that are usually obvious once they are pointed out, and with your description the logic follows and sticks with me. Thanks for that.