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Bent laminate cyqir.
Titebond 3 tb3 has a longer open time than tb2 and yields a darker glue line when dry.
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.
What would be the best wood to use on this bending project.
The second is a single form and a clamping block made of bending plywood and hardwood blocks.
My focus for the last several years has been sculpted furniture rocking chairs 5 and occasional chairs in the hal taylor scott morrison styles.
Woodworkers use bent wood laminations for everything from chair rockers to drawer handles.
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.
Both are an excellent choice for bent lamination.
The primary tool needed to create bent laminations is a vacuum press.
The laminate layers are sandwiched in between the clamping block and the form.
Each succeeding chair has more curved parts.
The finish spec is high density plastic laminate.
Any help on this subject would be great.
This bent laminated rocking chair was the third in a series of chairs that bonnett has been working on for more than four years.
The laminations can also be created with a male female press but this can be very time consuming and complicated with limited success.
I need to make a bent lamination for these faces that are 17 wide and range from 12 to 9 tall.