How do they bend wood for things like canoes?

Question

Do they cut it out in that shape? Or do they make it flexible somehow?

In: Engineering

Answer 1

You can think of wood like thick paper. Paper is normally pretty rigid and firm, but get it wet and it folds in on itself. People in factories can do that with wood using steam to make the wood bendy. Then they can use molds to form the bendy wood into boat shapes.