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Seeking: Model making
By:Paul Montgomery
Date: 12/29/2007, 9:37 am

Have any model makers here found a wood or a method of bending 1/8" dowel? Oak, while a great bending wood simply will not work. Red or white. If I was using thin flat stock it is no big deal- even 1/4" will bend ok. But I can't get dowel that thin to bend without splitting badly.

thanks

Paul M

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Seeking: Model making
Paul Montgomery -- 12/29/2007, 9:37 am
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Bill Hamm -- 12/29/2007, 10:29 am
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Paul Montgomery -- 12/29/2007, 6:49 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 12/31/2007, 2:13 am
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Paul G. Jacobson -- 12/29/2007, 10:46 pm
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Steve Szarawarski -- 12/30/2007, 11:21 pm
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RonC -- 12/29/2007, 10:57 pm
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Mike Scarborough -- 12/29/2007, 10:02 am
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Don Goss -- 12/29/2007, 9:49 am