When used as a structural element such as a table leg they are actually stronger than if the piece were cut from a single block of wood.
Bent lamination furniture.
Bent laminations do more than give your project a graceful look.
These window frames are bent laminations.
The last couple months i have been making a new table for my wife and i.
The formula is y amount of springback x depth of chord desired to bend n number of layers.
For this demo i used a thin rip jig and zero clearance throat plate to cut a number of thin strips for bending.
Titebond 3 tb3 has a longer open time than tb2 and yields a darker glue line when dry.
Shallow curves can be made up of fewer thicker laminations while tighter curves need more thin laminations.
The back slats are bent laminations.
There is a correction to the lamination formula given in the video.
Woodworkers use bent wood laminations for everything from chair rockers to drawer handles.
The table is made from ash.
Both are an excellent choice for bent lamination.
Often times curved laminations are needed to produce a certain trim or accent piece or even a structural component of the furniture we are building.
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My focus for the last several years has been sculpted furniture rocking chairs 5 and occasional chairs in the hal taylor scott morrison styles.
See the following examples.
The curved doors on the end of the peninsula are laminated.
Since bent lamination is used only for narrow parts such as drawer fronts table legs and aprons and chair parts the form can be fairly narrow.
The thickness of the parts is largely determined by your bend.