Putting water on a piece of wood to help you see the grain is a good idea. Unless that wood tends to check, in which case it's a bad idea. I learned this the hard way with a piece of french broom that began to check within minutes of me doing this. I probably screwed up a beautiful piece of wood. It has an amazing recurve shape naturally. It's nothing but cracks now. Woe is me. I'm gluing and clamping the cracks but will it be enough? I will find out. Plus, I'm steam bending it because it curved while it dried. I'm making all my mistakes on this piece, I hope.
Also, when steaming a piece of wood it is a good idea to prevent any metal from touching it as it can burn the wood, and then even if you sand off most of the burnt part it is very brittle and will break a week later when you try to bend it.
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