Bending An Extra One Just Because

It is a week later, and I have decided to bend another hoop to see if I have fixed all the problems, or whether the last one was a fluke. Here are the particulars of the timing:

The results of the bend this time were not stellar. The wood bent around the form OK, but it also split on one side.

Split

The Wood Has Split Again

The previous bend seems to be a bit of good luck since this one did not pan out so well. Here is a closeup of the failure point.

Failure

The Point Where the Wood Failed

That was discouraging. I will have to come back to this later.





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Original post date January 28, 2012

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