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"Pure Timber LLC" - Giant of Wood Fabrication is from ... tiny Gig Harbor ...

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"Steelcase Chicago" -This piece in the Chicago Design Center is at the entrance of the showroom to greet people and provoke them ...

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"Wiggly Wood" - Don’t know about Cold Bend™ Hardwoods? It’s a freaky cool way of bending wood. Read all about it at Popular Woodworking Magazine ...

 news-popular-woodworking-magazine.jpg  "Extremely Bendable Wood" - I don’t like adverbs , you know, words like “extremely,” “fallaciously” or “throbbingly.” But I am at a complete loss to otherwise describe this wack-nutty bendable wood ...
 news-professional-boatbuilder.jpg  See Issue Number 126 "Bent Wood" by Dan Spurr
 news-jlc.jpg  "Bendable Boards" - You can bend Cold-Bend hardwood boards without steaming...
 news-made-of-book-cover.jpg Made Of ... New Materials Sourcebook for Architecture and Design

Today’s innovative architecture would be inconceivable and unbuildable without the rapid development of new building materials and technologies. Against this background Made of… not only presents unconventional approaches to the use of materials in architecture and design but also describes the current state of research and rediscovered technologies...
 news-wood-boat-magazine-cover.jpg When I first heard of cold bendable hardwood from Pure Timber of Gig Harbor, WA, the concept seemed so unlikely that it barely raised and eyebrow. Here was a company claiming that its hardwood had been processed so it could be bent into pretzels right out of the box. Srely, I thought, this involved plastic miracle glue, lamination, hocus-pocus and magic wands. The end result, I guessed, was a lumber Chicken McNugget.... (Read more from Matthew P Murphy in the April 2010 issue of Wooden Boat Magazine).
 news-woodworkers-journal-logo.jpg "Knot Your Normal Wood" - Imagine taking a piece of wood in your hands, then bending and twisting it into any shape imaginable, from a tight curve to a twisted pretzel knot. The possibilities are endless, but of course, wood only behaves that way in your dreams, while you are fast asleep....
 news-dw.jpg NAMM 2009: Weirdest thing of the show is probably the new Super Solid snares, or to be honest, the process they go through to make the shells....  Read more from Michael Dolbear...
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"Extreme Wood Bending" - A man and his machine make spaghetti out of hardwood lumber with a patented compression process.

 news-the-news-tribune.jpg  "Visionary Sees a World in Bent Wood" - Tacoma News Tribune
 news-the-news-tribune.jpg  "Woodbender Chris Mroz: Ahead of the Curve" - Tacoma News Tribune
 news-chris-schwarz-blog.jpg  A return to Cold-Bend Hardwood, by Christopher Schwarz
 news-popular-woodworking-magazine.jpg  Compwood Unleashed!
 news-popular-woodworking-magazine.jpg  Get Bent! Ok I Will.
 news-woodworkers-journal-logo.jpg  Bend Oak without steaming
   
   
   
   
   

 

 

 

   

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