Bent Lamination Thickness

How thin you cut the strips depends on a number of factors include the wood s natural bending properties the severity of the curve and your tolerance for springback.
Bent lamination thickness. Lamination ply radius thickness 2 4 3 32 4 8 1 8 8 12 3 16 12 1 4. Cutting laminates on the bandsaw cutting your own laminates is best done with a bandsaw. Once the parts are formed changing the overall thickness will be very difficult so take the time to figure out the number and thickness of strips needed to make up your part. For very small shaker boxes in cherry even 1 16 can be too thick even after steaming.
As to ply thickness. Bottom line do as previously suggested. For a 6 radius bend using kiln dried walnut the best i could do was 13 laminations per inch. The process starts with ripping some thin strips of wood and applying glue to each strip.
It s messy but rewarding to see a gracefully bent piece of wood emerge from a glue encrusted form. Anything thicker was prone to splitting. Shallow curves can be made up of fewer thicker laminations while tighter curves need more thin laminations. The thickness of the parts is largely determined by your bend.
Bent lamination is a process of bending thin strips of wood using lots of glue and lots of clamps. 1 8 1 4 is common but i usually end up somewhere around 3 16.