Jig for Laminated Frames and Stem

Our boat has laminated midship pieces and a laminated stem.  In order to get the shape exactly as we need we had to build a jig for it.  We printed off the full scale size stem and taped it down to a piece of particle board.  Then we screwed jig blocks into place (when we did this we made sure that the forward/outside face of the stem/midship frames exceeded the needed dimensions).  Then we used plastic and tape to make sure that the pieces of wood would not stick to the jig.  One thing that we found was that the pieces of wood would not bend around the jig as needed, so a trick that we used was to steam the wood and then bend it into place.  After the wood had been steamed we could bend it easier and not crack or break it