How to Bend Vertical Grain Oak | Stronger Than Flat Grain Bending | Engels Coach 

Beautiful work! Love your tensioning method! ❤️ from a Hawaii boat builder!

Watching this a couple months ago actually made me believe in the process I had envisioned for my man-cave'y steam bending project. Many thanks for giving me the needed confidence back then! Em now slowly increasing thickness of the wood material I can bend, but not having any of the heavy equipment it tends to be hit&miss process sometimes so I have to juggle. Still, simply knowing it can be done on both horizontal and vertical grain is huge value in itself.

No need to apologize. what your doing and how your doing is plenty fine. Your explanation explains everything....thank you.

Amazing skill that you can look at a piece of wood and see in it what you want to make and how you must treat the wood to get exactly what you want. That is a true master. I hope you have an apprentice or two, would be a gift to have your knowledge passed on to another generation.

Wood is certainly a versatile material to work with even when the grain is obstinate. Looking good and thanks for the video.

Amazing technique. Thank you for sharing a lifetime of knowledge with the world

Amazing. It never disappoints to see it all come together even with a wrinkle. A metaphor for life. Thanks Dave

Wood is simply the most amazing natural material, and it’s great to have a craftsman show us how it can be manipulated...you make it all look so easy - and I know it’s far from that... 👍🏻

Love your work, your patience, knowledge, crafstmanship. Finding your channel was a very nice discovery. Thank you for the work you do to share an art that might be fading.

Nice work, I think you've done this a time or twenty. Thanks for the video, impressive.

I can never get enough of your work ..absolutely love the work

Thank you so much for taking the time to share this and make this video. Very informative and straight to the point.

Single camera is quite good enough and your directions are great too.... Nice share bro. Thanks

Watching the bending press in action is like the inverse of those hydraulic press videos

Idk how but somehow I missed this video. Looks great Dave as always! 👍👍

Thank you for your display bend oak

This is a great video, thanks for sharing! Architects and designers LOVE to bend and curve wood...on paper. Then they wonder why it costs so much in labor to actually do it! hahaha

Fascinating.I've been an oakaholic for over twenty years and am very happy to say that I get an enormous amount of insight from watching your terrific videos. It is a thing of wonder that you choose to share your wisdom with the World and I cannot thank you enough. Under what circumstances would one choose to bend with the grain 'vertical' rather than 'on the flat'? Is it for strength,or stability perhaps?

That is just so cool :) I look forward to each of your new video's coming and love every one !! Thanks for sharing , sincerely .............

And I'm so impressed with my self bending 1/16 inch wood around a 4 inch pvc pipe, then I watched your bend. Deflation sets in. But great video thanks for sharing.

that is amazing to bend that direction. and your jigs are really safe. thanks

I love the wrinkles Authentic looking. Rustic. Imagine the state of the wagon after a 1000 miles cross country! There's more than wrinkles

You are an amazing craftsman. I admire your skill and knowledge.

Hi: Very interesting, but I was surprised about the wrinkle. I knew that you could bend the curve that way and thatmuch, because I had to bend my Morris chair arms. I was very surprised how easy it was to bend 6/4 Quarter Sawn White Oak. That bending rack you have is a beautiful machine and I enjoy watching you use it and all of your blacksmith and coach work.

Moly holy, I did not think that was possible!!!! I missed what species of wood it was. Thanks for allowing us along for the big bend.

Beautiful, I just found you. Very Nice work, Thanks for the post

A beautiful job. Thanks for taking us along !

Everytime I watch one of these bends I'm waiting for something to go POP!

Amazing craftsmanship. Never mind the minor video angles.

I think your photography is very understandable. (We haven't evolve with four arms yet) .I Enjoy watching a real Craftsman at work. I take it you must of made a huge amount of mistakes when you first learned these crafts because your attention to detail is impeccable. (Or do you cut the mistakes out). Thank you for sharing, can't hardly wait for the next video.

You are an amazing craftsman !!! Tom

Fascinating work. I have near to nothing experiance with bending but one theoretical consideration: wouldnt it be better to bend with laying grain and sapwood outside like bows are made. Wood splits best perpendicular to the grain and this wrinkle does exact this. As always thanks for sharing, very interesting.

Impressive!

thanks for the good information, nice tips in there i will use.

Fantastic work! Your jig set up is awesome! Would you know of a good resource for making locking wooden bucket/barrel hoops? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for the time and effort you put into your videos. i have learned more from watching your trouble shooting your work than most other how-to's I have watched. I have wondered if there was much difference bending with the grain oriented vertical or horizontal. I am making bent parts for chairs, sometimes the part is more attractive with the grain oriented vertically.

Really impressive !! Thanks !

Gracias. Saludos desde Perú!

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Thanks for showing.

Thank you for the video. Merry Christmas

Amazing

Fascinating.

Fascinating 😃

I Love it.

In terms of fracture mechanics your wrinkle in wood is equivalent to a crack in a material like steel only in compression. Only you can judge whether you are prepared to live with it.

Always interesting Thanks

As usual, great job.

This is off-topic. I visited Arts&Metiers in Paris and found out that 1700-century french cannon wheels were rimmed with eight separate steel plates. Why did they not use a continuous rim?

Amazing!!!

I guess I may have missed this, sorry. However, what is the specific reason you bent it vertical grained instead of horizontal grained like usual? Was it for extra strength or was it the way the board was dimensioned originally so in order to have the boards dimensioned correctly this was the only way they could be bent and wind up with correct dimensions? This was fascinating. I hope you videoed how you cut them back to get rid of the wrinkles, too. Thanks for showing us this!

This is awesome. You certainly have 'the touch and knowledge' to work with wood! Would the closer grain of white oak been better or about the same as the red oak? Thanks for a great video!!! ….13

Camera work is good, no apologies warranted.

Is there any advantage to bending wood "against the grain" as you did with this wood? Is it less likely to break, sturdier somehow?

There is always a part of me left wondering where in the world some of the terminology for these parts come from. Hounds for example and I'm staring at a completely blank wall. Not to worry though, it feels like home since I find myself here quite often.

Amazing! You sure do know your stuff, great job! I'm curious though how long do / did you leave the wood in the steam box? Based on the size of the work piece it must have been several hours. Thanks again.

How long are you keeping your white oak in the steamer ? I've bent quartersawn 2-1/4" x 4-11/16" x 9' white oak in a steambox but it took approx 12hrs in the box before I put it too form,,,,I never really thought of doing it with a ram type of setup like you have there,,,I've used an adjustable stepping block form with the blocks 8" apart ,,,,I was surprised that the oak bent as easily as it did, my bends were no where near as extreme radius of yours,,.. This summer I'll be tackling some south african mahogany and teak bending for an old 1939 woodenboat...Thanks for sharing your bending techniques, I've learned some things from them so far, that I'll try this summer,,,thks again...

I would have never believed it to be possible to bend in that grain orientation .

Nice!

I am trying to figure out how my 1901 Art Deco waterfall top was made.. It is NOT laminated, there are no kerf cuts underneath. It's 5/16 at the rear, and definitely a tight bend at the front. Any insights greatly appreciated. It is a single piece of Maple.

Is the bending strap a special type of steel?

Is it stronger when it's bent on the vertical? Thanks for the video. I see others asking the same question.

I would suppose sled runners would be a similar exercise... but with thicker wood... Is there anything to be gained by steaming LONGER? Especially for thicker wood..?? Thanks Dave, great video!!

ROCK-ON !!!

How difficult would a slight bend on a hickory pick axe handle be?

Wow, I didn't know that was possible! Does this work for most woods, or is there something special about Oak?

would making some shallow perpendicular cuts on the inside part of the bend help in keeping wrinkles from forming?

Please take a second look at the wrinkle towards the back of the bend where there is a blob/smear that has the outlines of a face if you look long enough at it.

Awesome work, too sad that these are almost extinct skills as our new generation doesn't like doing creative work that doesn't involve computers. They don't know how much they are missing on the satisfaction of seeing the completion of their hand-made product.

If I want to steam bend 3/4 in oak, how long should I steam the wood? Thank so much for the help.

Is your press hydraulic? Nice video?

An other great video. I might have missed it watching but how long did you steam the piece before you started the bending operation and do you have any idea the amount torque being applied to the press when you bend a piece that size?

Is there danger of something letting loose and creating an explosion?

Sir l want to bend old saal wood with size of 5×3 is it possible to bend with these same machine please suggest me

Great video as always. How did you plane/shave/whatever the inside of the curve?

I sure do like watching your videos someday I'd like to come to your town and Shake Your Hand

Perfect is okay....

plot twist: he's making horseshoe for his giant horse pet

Sorcery. I would have bet a lot of money that this would be impossible.

Don't Americans work fast! He's like me.