Here is the start of a collection of books on wood bending. These books will provide information and techniques on how to bend wood.

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Fine Woodworking on Bending Wood: 35 Articles (Fine Woodworking on Series) (by Fine Woodworking Magazine (Editor)

(Reviewer) - I bought four books on woodbending with an eye primarily to learn about bent-ply furniture manufacture and prototyping. This book is inexpensive (check the used bargains) and filled with every imaginable technique including my primary interest, creating bent-plywood furniture. If you want to learn how to bend wood this book will be enough. 122 pages, 35 articles.

The Complete Manual of Wood Bending: Milled, Laminated, and Steambent Work (by Lon Schleining)

Using the three basic approaches to producing curved parts-laminate bending, steam bending, and milling by machine-this book provides step-by-step instructions on each method, the pros and cons of each project, and how to troubleshoot problems. Also included are discussions and advice as to what methods will work and what methods will not in various applications.

Bent Ply (by Dung Ngo, Eric Pfeiffer)

Plywood is arguably the most modern design artifact: it is a material born of natural wood and formed by vigorous industrial processes that can assume the most organic of shapes through bending, laminating, and molding. plywood truly fulfills that most modern of dreams: bridging the gap between technology and nature. Bent Ply is the first book devoted to plywood in modern design. The book consists of two parts: the first, an illustrated history of plywood (tracing its origins to ancient Egypt, circa 2900 BC); the second, an annotated journal of the making of a piece of bent plywood furniture, from the forest to the showroom. Bent Ply contains numerous illustrations of the classics of bent ply design, including furniture from Alvar Aalto, Michael Thonet, and Charles and Ray Eames, and examples of its appropriation by the military: John F. Kennedy’s PT109 boat and the DeHavilland "Mosquito" were both fabricated from plywood. Anyone interested in furniture design, woodworking, or materials will be fascinated by Bent Ply.

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