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Building a steam box for bending wood only requires exterior-grade plywood, waterproof glue and an electric tea kettle. I bought my kettle from Lee Valley (see Source, below). It came with an aluminum pipe to direct steam into the box. Any electric kettle with a cylindrical spout for inserting a pipe or attaching a hose will do. Most kettles, such as this one, don’t have a large capacity. You’ll need to refill the kettle three or four times per hour for a box this size. Tongue and groove joints help seal the box’s sides (photo, below right). Form the tongue by milling a 3/in. deep by 3/8-in. Your steam box needs to have some kind of support for your work pieces inside the box so that they are surrounded by steam, not just heated on one or two sides. Dowel rods work well and are relatively easy to install. Metal rods as supports may stain your work and would burn you more readily should you accidentally touch them.  Your plywood/wood box can be made from commonly available 1 x 6 material or 3/4" plywood. An interior dimension roughly 4"x 4" or 5"x 5" with a 3 to 5 foot length would be a workable volume to heat with the watt portable steamer we carry. More powerful steam generators will heat larger boxes. A steam box is a handy way to heat wood so that it becomes more pliable than it is at room temperature. Once pliable, you can bend the wood into shapes that you couldn't bend it into cold. Size of the steam box depends on the length and diameter of the wood that you intend to bend. In general, it's good to make the steam box just a little larger than the wood that you're trying to heat. The smaller the steam box, the faster it heats up and the sooner you're bending wood. I use a short steam box for bending ribs for kayaks. The ribs are 1/4 inch thick and 3/4 inches wide and.
In our classes, we use two different styles of steam boxes. One style is a plywood box the other is a PVC tube. Our biggest steam box is a /2” x /2” x 73” plywood box. It is very simple – butt joints and screws. The work pieces are held up on dowels that run across the center of the box. The steam goes into the box via a holeFile Size: KB. Dec 06,  · How I bend wood at www.- d of going through the hassle of building a wooden box to steam bend wood, I decided to use a mm (8"), thick wall irrigation. You need to construct a wooden box that is seven feet long, one foot wide, and one foot high. You can just use cheap plywood for a steam box. This size will allow you to steam almost any plank of wood and still give you the room you need to place the square footing (we’ll get in to that later) in the box.

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