Bent Lamination Designers

When you unclamp your dried part it is going to spring back a little bit from the stresses in the bent wood.
Bent lamination designers. To design the curvature of my bent lamination i opened up fusion 360. A note on form design here. There is no formula. After using an oscillating sander to clean up the inner curves and a disc sander to clean the outer curves trace your shape to another mdf board using your sanded shape and then rough cut the same shape only this time leave at least 1 16 of an inch between your cut and your pencil line.
This is a perfect example of a situation where bent lamination is a good choice. 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. You may need to over bend your parts to account for this. Pictured left you can see a closeup of one of the rockers on my maloof inspired rocker.
Choose your design software. I used fusion 360 free to hobbyists. The concept is actually pretty simple. Bent plywood bent laminated birch solid birch moma in 1940 charles eames and eero saarinen up and comers who would become 20th century design luminaries entered the museum of modern art s organic design in home furnishings competition.
So your best bet with heavilyt curved parts is to either steam bed the material to shape or do a bent lamination. A few thick laminations will tend to spring more than many thin pieces. 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.