I have made Peter Rhinehart's Multi-grain Struan free standing loaf many times and find that no matter what I proof it in, it spreads out in baking and ends up about 3 inches high.

 I am using spelt instead of whole wheat flour.......could that be the problem? Spelt and ww flour have always seemed to interchange okay for me before this particular bread.

The taste is great, by the way, and I plan to keep making it but would like the form to be more pleasing. Thanks from ahbread

I would like some information and help on shaping fendu loaves.  I found only two entries on this site as follows:

Floyd’s beautiful fendu loaf:

http://www.thefreshloaf.com/node/487/hamelman-breads