new J185

[Dave Bagwill]

Got mine from Joe Woodworker

[tim crain 54]

thanks Dave.

[ken cierp]

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[Jay McClellan]

I just tried SuperSoft for the first time on some very curly maple sides, not quartersawn and with complete grain runout every 1/4" from the curly figure. After a 2-hour soak with SuperSoft (sprayed then wrapped in plastic wrap), they bent easily on a hot iron using a sheet metal backer with no cracks whatsoever. I also soaked a practice piece and bent it until it broke just to see what it would take. It took about a 1" radius and 90 degrees before it broke, and would have gone farther if I had bent more slowly. My only complaint, and it's minor, is that they get so floppy there is loads of spring-back so after "bending" the sides straighten out a fair bit on their own and need to be clamped into a mold to hold the shape. That's the case with dry bending too but much more so with SuperSoft, just makes it harder to tell when you have the right bend on an iron. I expect it would be a non-issue on a bending form. After drying in the mold for a couple of days they are stiff as ever.