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.
Bent lamination furniture.
The table is made from ash.
The last couple months i have been making a new table for my wife and i.
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.
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.
There is a correction to the lamination formula given in the video.
Bent laminations do more than give your project a graceful look.
See the following examples.
The thickness of the parts is largely determined by your bend.
My focus for the last several years has been sculpted furniture rocking chairs 5 and occasional chairs in the hal taylor scott morrison styles.
These window frames are bent 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.
Shallow curves can be made up of fewer thicker laminations while tighter curves need more thin laminations.
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The obvious first step is to prepare the laminations.
Both are an excellent choice for bent lamination.
Mdf is the material of choice for making forms because its edges can easily be shaped into smooth curves with a bandsaw and files or spokeshaves.
The formula is y amount of springback x depth of chord desired to bend n number of layers.
The back slats are bent laminations.