I've taken up woodworking in the past few year.
Always dabbled a few things, been getting more involved now.

Joinery is a new thing for me.

It's something I've always wanted to get back into but I don't have the space or budget for a hobby like that at the moment.

I'll just enjoy videos like this until I can get back into it...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_i_DfncSQc

SadKangaroo wrote on Apr 4^th, 2022 at 3:15pm:

It's something I've always wanted to get back into but I don't have the space or budget for a hobby like that at the moment. I'll just enjoy videos like this until I can get back into it... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_i_DfncSQc

Yes, videos like a $15K kitchen top put me RIGHT off it.

Start off small with 'fun' cheap stuff.
If it does not 'work' that is ok.

One of my best creations was a stand to hold our cutting boards in the small kitchen.
I bought a few cheap wood dish drying racks from a $2 dollar shop.
Dismantled them, reglued them back together to form an elevated rack that has 5 slots.
We use it every day many times.

I learnt a lot about wood glues and thinking in 3D doing that job.

Am planning on bending wood.

Have these suggestions


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..........  I use Tassie oak all the time and have found soaking the wood for extended periods in water with some fabric softener allows me to bend much thicker sections. (Obviously strapping is a must, reducing amount of tension stress on the outer fibers). My understanding is that the soaking revitalizes some of the lignin’s that have been impacted by the kiln drying and assists in transferring heat. 2 years ago You need to support the back (exposed) of the timber with a metal strap.  Bending wood compresses the inside curve but stretches the outside curve very little.  Small radius bend (< 4") require metal band support to enable the stretch without cracking.  You also require more clamps, 1 every couple of inches, especially if a band is not used to prevent cracking. While building boats I learned from the pros to wrap the wood in old terry cloth (or Similar cloth) and slowly pour rapidly boiling water  (hotter than 100 degrees celsius) over it repeatedly for fifteen minutes.  It worked well for bending wood much thicker than this. The wood was wet and saturated with steam and bent well. Very hot and requires good gloves to handle.  It cools a bit slower due to saturation.  But dries completely in a couple hours after.    .....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Lpu8w_QLng

I trialled this method on a thin scrap bit

'..........   I learned from the pros to wrap the wood in old terry cloth (or Similar cloth) and slowly pour rapidly boiling water  (hotter than 100 degrees celsius) over it repeatedly for fifteen minutes.  It worked well for bending wood much thicker than this. The wood was wet and saturated with steam and bent well. Very hot and requires good gloves to handle.  It cools a bit slower due to saturation.  But dries completely in a couple hours after.  ...........'

It was working. Albeit slow and labour intensive.
But it is doable.

Instead of that, I went to the 'construction/landscaping' area of Bunnings.
There was some bent  5M lengths of timber there the width and depth I wanted.
$9 for a 5M length, I got 2 of.
'Pre-bent' ..........

I have done some jigsawing and gluing to get the finished product.