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Wood Bending by Boiling - Sussex Chair Part 6
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all right well today I'm bending the
order components for the Sussex chair so
I'm bending the rear legs and the arms
and what I'm doing I'm boiling them in
my bending bath so it's a boiling copper
bath I've made out of an old central
heating hot water cylinder and I've made
some bending formers to actually help
get the compression that I need that
then the components once it got nice and
hot so I'll be boiling them for about an
hour and then well let's hope for the
best it works so I'll show you the setup
and we'll film the bending well this is
my bending bath and it's just really a
copper central heating cylinder that
I've cut around rather a lot to make
into a long trough and I've just soft
soldered it together and as long as to
keep it full with water that soft solder
holds perfectly okay it's got a standard
Fox tight construction as you can see
with the boy on the ends windbreak here
just to keep fat off sit Brno itself is
a heavy-duty Kate wing gas burner and
I've got a gas cylinder for my supply
pauly components to be vent are just
weighted so they're underneath the water
I mean that's polythene bag there is a
heavy bit of metal which is in policy
and keep the tannin after wood
keep that down a bit anyway they're
heating up quite nicely
I'll give them up to an hour and I'll
bend the arm components first as they're
thinner and then I'll go for the legs my
bending form for the arm components is
simply this two blocks of wood curved
and you put the arm in and then press
the two bits of wood together so what
I'm doing I'm actually using a bench
vise there we are
put your bit of wood in and tighten up
the vise this is my bending former for
the legs and it's essentially some
shaped pieces of wood we'll go over the
two legs we should be held in this clamp
and then they're just tightened down so
I've got rerouted channels and then
these blocks which bolt down
the actual bolt downs all they are it's
just heavy-duty bolts on studying and
I've welded a bit of conduit on the end
just to give a t-bar make me a work
there's a simple as that so that's my
bending form for the rear legs okay I'm
going to get the fine spindles now for
the side arms and what goes in the bend
so we'll see how that goes
I've got five spindles here and so that
gives me a spare they're really steaming
off here I'm wearing my glass which is
just as well as they are very hot bend
in slowly and get it straight as I can I
got it in the right position a little
bit further along I think I'd be I don't
like this one it's not got much time
they're cooling obviously all the time
things going in now I think that's going
okay I'm getting a little bit nervous
tiny bit of breakout on one let see the
top there let's get that in tight and
firm all right that's in and AH on
so I'm now it's doing a final heat fare
on the side arms the legs obviously are
still boiling away as well it started to
snow again oh yeah I should be on my
allotment touch I need to really catch
up we're doing a lot of allotment work
but um I'm not because of the weather
sorry for what I'd press on and get some
chairs done yeah the arms I've got three
of them supper despair despair is a bit
of a rough one but better have a spare
than not imposition gain they're cooling
down very quickly so let's just get on
and get them bending okay so far still
okay
I was taking some pressure on this still
okay I'm looking for damage on the
actual arms as I've been but I think
they're going to deal alright alright
I'm not gonna get much further than that
right they are surviving this is a
little bit nerve-racking okay
I don't think I want to go too much more
it does take some pressure I think
possibly ah that's it yep here's a
close-up of the arms so I'm going to
leave those in device now for fair old
while probably a day actually just to
make sure they nicely dry out in there
and I may actually put my stove in the
shed back on get the heat up and hear
the side stretches I'm doing final Bowl
now on the rear legs I've just tucked
them well underneath the water and it's
boiling away quite view asleep which is
great so I'll be ready before long they
have at the moment had getting on for
now I do want to give them a full hour
being a thicker section they have been
lower in the trough so I think they've
been taking what he really can now had a
good 1/2 background 5 minutes I'm gonna
pop them in and let's do this so in the
bending form on the rest of it to work
quickly here grand pond
tighten up losing heat all the time so I
can't afford to dilly-dally here right
pressure on
we need two people for this going okay
so far okay it's going well
famous last words
that's probably good enough actually oh
I don't know overdo it bent legs yeah be
a little bit of spring back is it take
the clamps off which makes me feel I
want to keep going with a bit more
curvature well I hope you enjoyed that
bending I say I think quite enjoyed it
was a little bit tense mating for me
because I don't want it going wrong but
got a good set of ends here and so
Sussex chair bending done which is great
not certain what the next video will be
possibly see construction possibly
goodness some assembly it's coming on
now actually nice position to be getting
to we're here my chickens who seem to
benefit from all of wood chip that I
produce suffering a bit today because
it's it's cold I've been giving them a
bit more corn for New York eat and going
that one there lays blue eggs
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