I pulled this photo from the Hemlock/Curtis Canoe group on Facebook because I thought it was beautiful. It is described as: "Diamond Woven Grid of Bent Ash with Spruce Stringers & Dacron."
It was made by this fellow, and there are more photos of it on his website:
www.puretimber.com
His compression processed hardwood allows him, or his customers, to hand bend the wood cold into extreme radii: "Use Compressed Wood for Extreme Wood Bending™ to a radius of curvature as small as 5 times the thickness of the plank without steam, without heat, without backing straps and without springback." The process is described here:
puretimber.com
It was made by this fellow, and there are more photos of it on his website:
Wood bending for wood wooden boats and the marine industry was our first bentwood business
Wood Bending for boats working in organic sculptural shapes from bent wood
www.puretimber.com
His compression processed hardwood allows him, or his customers, to hand bend the wood cold into extreme radii: "Use Compressed Wood for Extreme Wood Bending™ to a radius of curvature as small as 5 times the thickness of the plank without steam, without heat, without backing straps and without springback." The process is described here:
Wood Bending without Steam. A compressed engineered Superwood for the most Extreme Woodbending. We reinvented wood..
Wood Bending without steam for woodwork, sculpture and fabrication. A Superwood we invented
puretimber.com
