A number of years ago I had a sample to play with, about 3/8" x 1/2" x 12" it is truly flexible until it dries. I think you could compare bending it to bending 12-3 romex cable. I think the wood was beech. My understanding of how they made it was taking a roughly 6 x 6 beam, steam it so the moisture content was quite high, placing it in a metal box with the same inside dimension. Then with a hydraulic ram compress the length, which crushes the cells, essentially adding folds to the walls. I can't remember how much they compressed it but it was a lot, 15 to 20% of length comes to mind. It then returns to 95% of length. It is supposed to be almost as strong as normal wood. I was visiting a factory that made chairs and they had a chair that used about a 1" dia. Dowel and one of the workers showed that he could bend it into a U over his knee. The radius of the bend was less than 6".