How is wood made into long & wide planks?

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I’m honestly confused, wood can’t be melted, if you tried bending it, it would just snap? Sorry if I sound dumb lol, I’m just curious.

[Pic of what I mean](https://contentgrid.homedepot-static.com/hdus/en_US/DTCCOMNEW/fetch/NexGen/ContentPage/plywood-project-panels3.png)

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Anonymous 0 Comments

YouTube is the place for you. Look up how they make plywood. Quite the interesting process. For the nice faces, they essentially take a log, take a long knife along the length of the log and shave a thin sheet off as the log rotates. The other layers are strips, or pressed woodchips held together with glue.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Like plywood? Made by shaving a trunk in a continuous spiral then steaming it, flattening it out and gluing layers to desired thickness.

If not plywood, you pretty much need a tree as big as you want the wood long/wide.

Anonymous 0 Comments

What it looks like you have there is some type of thin plywood. Plywood is many pieces of wood glued together.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Would actually can be bend when you use hot steam and pressure. That’s how they bend the wood for wooden ships and other items.
This was already known a long time and this is the reason why they were able to make wooden ships.