How to Bend Wood – Kerf Bending Explained is your hands-on guide to transforming straight cuts into smooth curves. In this tutorial, I break down the kerf bending technique—making a series of evenly ...

Editor’s note: This column originally published in 2009 was produced before Gene Wengert died in 2025. It is printed here in memoriam. Question. There’s a debate going on at our lumber yard between ...

Bending wood is a complex affair. Despite the curves inherent in trees, most wood does not naturally want to bend. There are a few tricks you can use to bend it however, such kerf cutting and steaming ...

Q: I have a corner in a home office where I want to build a corner cabinet. The question is how to make the front of the cabinet round so that the radius of the front goes from one wall to the other.

Bending wood is a complex affair. Despite the curves inherent in trees, most wood does not naturally want to bend. There are a few tricks you can use to bend it however, such kerf cutting and steaming ...

They say if you love what you do, work is like play. For Brian Skalaski, “playing” with steam-bending wood experiments led to a winning entry in the prestigious Young Wood Pro contest. This is the ...