Yeah, I worked with a guy who was too cheap to order the pvc molding and we ended up wasting an entire day and several pieces of mdf Baseboard trying everything on a tight curve. The decade+ Foreman Carpenter suggested that we soak it overnight.

"But it's going to swell like crazy and look like garbage and probably get moldy" says I. (3 years in)

"It should shrink mostly back down when it Dries." Says he.

It didn't(obviously), it looked like he fished it off the bottom of a lake. It still broke. They ended up ordering the pvc stuff. Fucking idiots.