I see old houses with cedar shingles applied over curved surfaces(both with the short grain and long grain, what methods are used to bend these shingles?
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They are called flares and I've always seen them done without any preparatoin such as wetting or steaming. I think the siders put a nail in the center to hug the form.
Perhaps someone else has first-hand experience.
As long as the cedaars are not extremely dry ( which makes them brittle and split out around the nails under stress of bending) I just use a knee or palm of hand to bend into place while nailing.
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I've done some where we needed to steam WRC shingles and bend them to fit tightly curved knee-braces on an exterior. I'd guess something like a 5' radius and 18" shingles. We were using R&R shingles, completely dry, so one of the other carpenters steamed them and clamped them into a form. I think he had bandsawn the two parts of the form from a large chunk of a glulam, using a handheld Milwaukee bandsaw. He put a handful of shingles at a time in the form and let them cool outside for a while. He made a few hundred of them. They sprung back a bit after being unclamped. If you have to ask how much that cost...
WRC does take more work than eastern white
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