Bent Wood Lamination Furniture

If your radii is tight you can use 1 16 wisa italian bending plywood.
Bent wood lamination furniture. A note on form design here. 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. Face the front side of the wood with a veneer or laminate. You may need to over bend your parts to account for this.
The formula is y amount of springback x depth of chord desired to bend n number of layers. What you need to use for bent wood lamination is 1 8 bending poplar plywood that comes in either long or short grain. Bent wood lamination basics 10 tips for making strong graceful curves that add a new dimension to your woodworking. See the following examples.
There is a correction to the lamination formula given in the video. These sheets come in 4 x 8. Thin strips of wood typically no thicker than 1 16 inch are glued together to form circles waves or just about any shape for specialized designs. Other types of laminated wood includes bent or curved items such as chair legs backs or other parts for furniture.
Lamination is different than veneering. Is your woodworking ready to break free of the box. My focus for the last several years has been sculpted furniture rocking chairs 5 and occasional chairs in the hal taylor scott morrison styles. Titebond 3 tb3 has a longer open time than tb2 and yields a darker glue line when dry.
The greater the number the stiffer and less likely the lamination will be to spring back. A few thick laminations will tend to spring more than many thin pieces. You ll find a whole new world of possibilities to explore. Cut the plies large enough to fill the form.
Commercially made laminate layers are not widely available. Check out bent laminations. There is no formula. When you unclamp your dried part it is going to spring back a little bit from the stresses in the bent wood.
Bent lamination just introduces the element of curving the laminate. This not only will fix or set the bend it will also hide the any cuts that occurred during the process. The more seams you have the less chance for springback. In veneering the layers are oriented in an alternating fashion while in laminating the layers are oriented in the same direction.