There is no formula.
Bent wood lamination furniture.
These sheets come in 4 x 8.
Bent wood lamination basics 10 tips for making strong graceful curves that add a new dimension to your woodworking.
The more seams you have the less chance for springback.
There is a correction to the lamination formula given in the video.
If your radii is tight you can use 1 16 wisa italian bending plywood.
Other types of laminated wood includes bent or curved items such as chair legs backs or other parts for furniture.
In veneering the layers are oriented in an alternating fashion while in laminating the layers are oriented in the same direction.
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.
Cut the plies large enough to fill the form.
Commercially made laminate layers are not widely available.
What you need to use for bent wood lamination is 1 8 bending poplar plywood that comes in either long or short grain.
Locate individual layers of wood on curves to recognize laminated bent wood.
My focus for the last several years has been sculpted furniture rocking chairs 5 and occasional chairs in the hal taylor scott morrison styles.
Check out bent laminations.
This not only will fix or set the bend it will also hide the any cuts that occurred during the process.
See the following examples.
You may need to over bend your parts to account for this.
The formula is y amount of springback x depth of chord desired to bend n number of layers.
Thin strips of wood typically no thicker than 1 16 inch are glued together to form circles waves or just about any shape for specialized designs.
Titebond 3 tb3 has a longer open time than tb2 and yields a darker glue line when dry.
Both are an excellent choice for bent lamination.
When you unclamp your dried part it is going to spring back a little bit from the stresses in the bent wood.
A note on form design here.
Lamination is different than veneering.
Bent lamination just introduces the element of curving the laminate.
If you want to disguise the kerfing mix together glue and sawdust or an appropriate wood filler and fill the spaces left in the bent wood.
The greater the number the stiffer and less likely the lamination will be to spring back.
Face the front side of the wood with a veneer or laminate.