a friend of mine was building a fullsize boat in his garage , I was very impressed with the steamer which he had made for that project .

I had an idea  and this works just as well and a very safe way of bending planks

1. boil some water in  a kettle

2. either use a kitchen bowl or breakfast bowl . or a tray with no holes

3. a clean chux waper [ just a cleaning clothis just as good

by putting the boiling water in the bowl with plank wrapped in this cloth note [  if using the bowl I would do one  plank] and then push it all the way through fully emursed in the boiling water .

what this does subject the [plank to boiling water [ same as steaming ]

I had another problem, I had glued 4 planks together and needed to move them down

what I did was carefully  wrap the same cloth as above , around the four glued and then the steam from the boiling water released and also allowed me to bend these planks without destroying the glue