Bent Lamination Woodworking

The wood used was hard maple one of the more difficult from both the glue adhesion and bending stiffness.

Bent lamination woodworking.

The process starts with ripping some thin strips of wood and applying glue to each strip. Check out bent laminations. Bent lamination is a process of bending thin strips of wood using lots of glue and lots of clamps. Over the course of this journey i learned about a new form of woodworking steam bending and bent lamination and a lot about myself.

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. Which wood would be the best for bent wood lamination. My entry for the rockler bent wood challenge hosted by rockler and the modern maker podcast. Bent laminating is an easily acquired skill that will open up new avenues for expressing your woodworking creativity.

This project started as a trip to some of the local art museums searching for inspiration. We decided to make the bent wood ribs of our replica wright gliders by laminating the parts with a water resistant aliphatic resin yellow glue. If your project won t be exposed to the weather you can use almost any good wood glue. Bent lamination if you are one of those woodworkers who has thought about how nice it would be to use bent lamination in a project but are intimidated by the process think again.

Because it is achieved through gluing up thin laminates it works with most wood species and the multiple face grain glue joints give a bent laminated curve great strength. I have to make a number of chair back arm rests out of a bent lamination. Bent lamination makes strong curved parts that wouldn t be possible with steam bending or sawing. 10 layers 1 8 at about 5 radius after the glue had cured for 24 hours on the form the parts were laid aside for at least a week.

Jason bent of bent s woodworking releases bi weekly youtube videos sharing tips and tricks how to s build videos and more all in an effort to make you a better woodworker. Bent wood lamination basics 10 tips for making strong graceful curves that add a new dimension to your woodworking. I want to run this over the jointer which should is easy enough. Quite a while back i did a series of glue tests on bent laminations.

You could also use resorcinol epoxy or polyurethane glue for an application like ours. Is your woodworking ready to break free of the box. Alex july 6 2016 11 36 am hey marc i have a question concerning clean up. Thanks and keep inspiring.

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