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When I started steam bending, the day after a talk by designer David Colwell at my college, I did not fully understand what I was doing. Wood would often break and I did not know why. I was coming to the process as a metalworker and tried to do to wood what I was already doing to metal; heating the material to bend, twist, and squash it into a wide range of shapes. I had a lot of interestingly shaped pieces of wood on my workbench, but also at least as many broken pieces under it. It was only when I took the time to read about wood, to understand in my own terms about how trees grow, what wood is, and what actually happens when we heat the wood and bend it, that things became easier.