I made it from some leftover osb and plywood as shown in the video.
Bent lamination chair.
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.
Bent laminations don t take a lot of specialized equipment.
A wide variety of bent lamination chair options are available to you such as home furniture commercial furniture and outdoor furniture.
Bottom part of the mould is rigid and keeps it s shape while the top part of the mould is more.
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I saw a lot of similar design in metal and decided to try and make one in wood.
Annette koehnen koehnen built this european ash chair 28 in.
A video of making a bent lamination chair.
I started by making a mould for back rest and and seat.
Fortune shows you step by step how to build a beautiful garden chair with classy curves.
Tall as part of a commission for a dining table and 12 chairs.
With glue between each lamination a press is used to bend the bundle of laminations around a form.
In this video workshop michael c.
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.
So the first order of business is to build the form followed by cutting the wood into lamination strips.
Overall i bent 4 mm thick strips into a 45 cm radius circle.
Bent lamination chair finewoodworking woodworker.
A few thick laminations will tend to spring more than many thin pieces.
Make the radius of your form just an eighth inch or so smaller than you want to final part to be.
A bent lamination is simply a board sliced into thin flexible plies and glued back together in a form to create the desired shape see photo above.
The challenge was to design a.