steam bent or bandsaw-ed?

Laminate bent from 1/8” strips is the easy way with a proper glue to eliminate springback would be my 1st choice. Steaming teak is not an easy way to start with bending.
Bandsawing from thicker stock would be the simplest for you and no one else will know but you.
Teak is very difficult wood to joint and plane with High Speed Knives. The Minerals dull the metal fast. You will go through a bandsaw blade or two. Carbide circular saw blades will last the longest.

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Be alot of waste I thing for bandsaw cut. My guess is resaw thin slices then glue and press them in a form. Laminated is strongest. Got to build the press any way for steam bent. I’d make the press out of a couple of hunks of 2 X 12 and 3/4 inch ply, cut the radius I need sandwich the ply between the 2 X 12’s, wax it up, then glue up the thin pieces and clamp the bajesus out of the thing over night.

I was going to build a steam tank at one point, but decided against it. Resaw and laminating is what I believe works the best.

-- Methods are many,Principles are few.Methods change often,Principles never do.

Teak would not be a good choice to steam bend anyway. The Bent Lamination would be the way to go. Make sure you use a rigid glue like resorcinol, or Marine glue that you mix up with water. PVA glue is too flexible.

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