To make his furnishings, Pliessnig first sketches his designs with a computer, allowing the ideas to grow into fantastic organic shapes. He then steam bends long strips of wood, changing the flat ...

Dive into the most amazing creative wood strip processing project that takes ordinary timber to extraordinary heights. This video showcases a perfect coffee table set crafted with an innovative ...

Wood planing is the art of shaving wood into really thin strips. It's a Japanese carpentry technique, and it's become competitive. Some people are able to shave wood thinner than the size of a cell.

This is an easy job to DIY. Start by measuring the height difference between the floors. For example, if you have one floor that is about 1 inch high, and another that is 1/4 inch high, you will ...

For comparison, the average sheet of paper measures in at about 100 microns [PDF]. Creating strips of fibrous filo dough out of wood isn’t the end goal of the shaving process.