Talk:Steam bending

Proposed merge

It is proposed that Heat bending of wood be merged into this page Steam bending because:

• The content in Heat bending is very similar too, or a subset of, the content in Steam bending.
• There is no substantive difference between heat bending and steam bending as both rely on the presence of moisture in the wood to work.
• Heat bending is a stub and would do better developed in the more advanced article
• Including in one article will reduce confusion among people searching for either. Ex nihil ^(talk) 06:55, 25 April 2017 (UTC)

• Agree- Steam bending is a form of heat bending, so sensible to merge Steam Bending into the Heat Bending page. Wilfridselsey (talk) 08:41, 25 April 2017 (UTC)

• Optimistically oppose. I can see why we might merge these. They are very similar, at the level of the current articles. However, for two articles of encyclopedic depth, they're actually different. They are used by completely separate fields of woodworking. They work differently (steam bending softens the whole piece, then shapes it to a jig, heat bending softens only one small part at a time, controlling the scope of the bend). They are simply used at such different sizes - heat bending is for veneers in fractions of an inch thickness, steam bending can build a boat.

Then there's ammonia bending too.

As it is, with two such skimpy articles, there's so little in here that it makes no difference. But if one or other of these expanded to be anything like the size they need to be, then they would no longer fit together. As such, we ought to have an overall article on wood bending (which could cover Glulam and cold-press plywood too), then separate articles on each technique. Andy Dingley (talk) 10:45, 25 April 2017 (UTC)

• Agree Grantmidnight (talk) 17:48, 25 February 2018 (UTC)

Oppose merge; each article is appropriately references and describes distinct, independently notable topics. Klbrain (talk) 23:03, 1 September 2018 (UTC)