We’re switching it up this week and moving off our mold to make the stem for our TotalBoat Sport Dory. It’s going to be made out of a nice piece of seasoned white oak that we’re going to compression steam bend. Lou is going to do it using standard 6mil poly and pull the piece of lumber and metal brace into the bag for steaming. With a couple burners and some water Lou shows us how to feed steam into the bag with rubber tubing to heat up the stem and melt the Lignin in the wood, that’s the glue that holds the wood together. Once the piece softens up we can crank on the come along and pull the stem into the proper parabolic shape.
