# STL230: Bending wood with your bare hands

- Show: [Shop Talk Live](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/shop-talk-live)
- Published: 2020-12-04
- Length: 1h 02m
- Page: https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/shop-talk-live/2020-12-04-stl230-bending-wood-with-your-bare-hands
- Listen: https://shoptalklive.podcast.static.taunton.com/stl230-bending-wood-with-your-bare-hands

## Summary

Mike Pekovic and Anisa Copsalis discuss the transition from beginner to intermediate woodworking, emphasizing the importance of fixing mistakes, machine comfort, and sharpening hand tools. They compare steam bending, hot pipe bending, and bent laminations, detailing specific setups like incandescent tube bulbs for hot pipe bending and wallpaper steamers for steam bending. The hosts also share personal 'smooth moves,' including Anisa's bench trough organization and Mike's troubleshooting of a router table cutter installation.

## Chapters

- [0:06](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/shop-talk-live/2020-12-04-stl230-bending-wood-with-your-bare-hands#t=6) Introduction and New Series Announcement
- [3:57](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/shop-talk-live/2020-12-04-stl230-bending-wood-with-your-bare-hands#t=237) Leveling Up: Fixing Mistakes and Machine Comfort
- [19:54](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/shop-talk-live/2020-12-04-stl230-bending-wood-with-your-bare-hands#t=1194) Comparing Steam Bending and Hot Pipe Bending
- [27:06](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/shop-talk-live/2020-12-04-stl230-bending-wood-with-your-bare-hands#t=1626) Steam Bending Setup and Drying Techniques
- [36:53](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/shop-talk-live/2020-12-04-stl230-bending-wood-with-your-bare-hands#t=2213) Smooth Moves: Bench Organization and Speaker Build Failure
- [45:50](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/shop-talk-live/2020-12-04-stl230-bending-wood-with-your-bare-hands#t=2750) Smooth Moves: Router Table Cutter Error and Shop Setup Advice

## Topics

- [Mechanical engineering](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/mechanical-engineering)
- [Materials & manufacturing processes](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/materials-and-processes)
- [Fabrication & craft](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/fabrication-and-craft)
- [Debugging & failure analysis](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/debugging-and-failure-analysis)
- [Factory operations & automation](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/factory-operations)

## Most relevant to

makers and hobbyists

## Mentioned

- Krenov School (other)
- Bob Van Dyke (other)
- Brian Boggs (other)
- Yuri Kobayashi (other)
- Gary Rogowski (other)
- Northwest Woodworking Studio (company)
- Laguna (company)
- RadioShack (company)
- Fine Woodworking (other)

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- [Episode 332: Plywood is good](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/making-it/2021-11-27-episode-332-plywood-is-good) (Making It)
- [Episode 064: Pat the bushes of my brain](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/making-it/2016-03-25-episode-064-pat-the-bushes-of-my-brain) (Making It)
- [Episode 254: Inch everything along](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/making-it/2020-03-25-episode-254-inch-everything-along) (Making It)
- [Episode 220: Giant Plasma Table Hands](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/making-it/2019-07-12-episode-220-giant-plasma-table-hands) (Making It)
- [Making It #010: If it looks straight….](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/making-it/2015-02-26-making-it-010-if-it-looks-straight) (Making It)

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