The last couple months i have been making a new table for my wife and i.
Bent lamination furniture.
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Bend wood to make furniture using a bent lamination technique that involves cutting wood into the desired shape ripping wood strips applying glue with a ro.
Bent laminations do more than give your project a graceful look.
Shallow curves can be made up of fewer thicker laminations while tighter curves need more thin laminations.
The table is made from ash.
Both are an excellent choice for bent lamination.
See the following examples.
The back slats are bent laminations.
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.
Titebond 3 tb3 has a longer open time than tb2 and yields a darker glue line when dry.
For this demo i used a thin rip jig and zero clearance throat plate to cut a number of thin strips for bending.
There is a correction to the lamination formula given in the video.
The formula is y amount of springback x depth of chord desired to bend n number of layers.
The obvious first step is to prepare the laminations.
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.
These window frames are bent laminations.
Woodworkers use bent wood laminations for everything from chair rockers to drawer handles.
My focus for the last several years has been sculpted furniture rocking chairs 5 and occasional chairs in the hal taylor scott morrison styles.
The thickness of the parts is largely determined by your bend.