A few thick laminations will tend to spring more than many thin pieces.
Bent lamination chair.
Wide by 17 in.
So the first order of business is to build the form followed by cutting the wood into lamination strips.
Make the radius of your form just an eighth inch or so smaller than you want to final part to be.
Fortune shows you step by step how to build a beautiful garden chair with classy curves.
The challenge was to design a.
I started by making a mould for back rest and and seat.
A wide variety of bent lamination chair options are available to you such as home furniture commercial furniture and outdoor furniture.
So while i was bending to a radius 112 times the thickness ikea bends to a radius of just 34 times thickness.
Once the glue dries the workpiece will hold it s new shape.
Deep by 40 in.
Bottom part of the mould is rigid and keeps it s shape while the top part of the mould is more.
Bent laminations don t take a lot of specialized equipment.
I made it from some leftover osb and plywood as shown in the video.
Although curves can be intimidating fortune walks you through the entire process of building and using forms to achieve bent laminations that will stand the test of time.
With glue between each lamination a press is used to bend the bundle of laminations around a form.
A video of making a bent lamination chair.
Bent lamination chair finewoodworking woodworker.
Tall as part of a commission for a dining table and 12 chairs.
On the famous ikea chairs the legs are laminated out of strips of 1 3 mm in thickness and are bent to a radius as low as 45 mm in places.
Overall i bent 4 mm thick strips into a 45 cm radius circle.
In this video workshop michael c.
I saw a lot of similar design in metal and decided to try and make one in wood.