How-To
How to bend wood for Shaker boxes
Learn how to use boiling water and simple bending forms to create traditional Shaker oval boxes
Mar 11, 2015
For woodworkers looking to learn the art of bending wood with steam or hot water, traditional Shaker box construction is a great place to start. The required tools—a trough of either copper or galvanized steel, a pair of hot plates, and a supply of distilled water—aren’t costly, and great results can be achieved with only a modicum of ability.
In this short video, Matt Kenney demonstrates Shaker box expert Pete Baxter‘s simple technique for bending and forming the classic oval Shaker box.
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My beard sure has grown since March 2020. Could you please add a URL for subscription members to see Pete Baxter's article in FW 247.
Do you mean the PDF that is linked at the bottom of the page you get when you click on "How to Make a Shaker Box" just above your comment?
https://www.finewoodworking.com/2015/03/25/how-to-make-a-shaker-box
Dave Richards, thanks so much for that kindly, understanding comment. I wrongly assumed that FW would have it printed within the body of the article, as they have in other articles. I did enjoy the new, and more in depth, Highland Woodworker piece this month with Tim Arnold on making Shaker boxes.
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