Somebody had a thread on here about bending wood for top sockets by boiling wood, not steaming it. Where is that thread?

http://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/118802/127528.html?1267303583

I steamed mine but boiling sounds better on those short pieces.

It's not the water that has anything to do with bending wood, it's the heat. Luthiers often bend guitar and fiddle rims dry by working the pieces on a hot pipe. Steam delivers a lot of heat most efficiently to large pieces. Boiling will work for parts that can fit into a kettle, but they can't float, and it could take a while. When the wood is hot enough to bend it's rather magical, kind of like a hot noodle - but you gotta be quick because soon as the piece begins cooling it becomes rigid again very rapidly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9YzpOVTPcU&t=28s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9UPihp04xY

An Other one.

Andre
Belgium

I am undecided which way to go, boiling in water or heating with dry heat. I don't have an acetylene torch but I wonder if I could make it happen with my propane torch? I wonder where I can get the glue that is said to work well with wet wood? I wonder if most or all wood glues will work with wet wood? I have a couple of extra sockets that I can clamp the wet (or hot) wood around to form it.

If I decide to cook it, I wonder how well one of my two-burner Coleman camp stoves will work, using a metal can?

Tommy I had the tabs open on my top sockets when I removed the old wood. I steamed new pieces about 5/16 thick X two and slide them in quickly and clamped it. Let it set a couple days and closed the tabs on the socket. No glue, no nails once the rivet is through wood it cant move. Remember that wood swells when wet. I made mine exact thickness and width and they swelled and would not fit inside the socket.

Dallas, did you heat the tabs before the bending and unbending to avoid breaking them off?
I'm still trying to figure out how my sockets were in use, as they appear to have been, with no wood in the curved areas for staples or nails to hold to. Anybody got a theory?

Tommy I did not. It is suggested by many to do so. I was lucky I guess. here is how I clamped them in.

You can see the original ones in lower photo were two thin pieces.