I bent the second stem blank today without any cracking. The steam box got up to 205F and I steamed the blank for 2 hours. This time I bent it from the deck end down to the keel, which worked better because the last bit was fairly straight and I had better leverage to bend it. I tried sawing the bevel on the broken pieces from my first stem bending attempts on the bandsaw and it looks like it will work well if I set the bandsaw table to 15 degrees and saw to the corner of the square stock.
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