Overall i bent 4 mm thick strips into a 45 cm radius circle.
Bent lamination chair.
Make the radius of your form just an eighth inch or so smaller than you want to final part to be.
A few thick laminations will tend to spring more than many thin pieces.
A wide variety of bent lamination chair options are available to you such as home furniture commercial furniture and outdoor furniture.
Fortune shows you step by step how to build a beautiful garden chair with classy curves.
I saw a lot of similar design in metal and decided to try and make one in wood.
Deep by 40 in.
I made it from some leftover osb and plywood as shown in the video.
On the famous ikea chairs the legs are laminated out of strips of 1 3 mm in thickness and are bent to a radius as low as 45 mm in places.
So while i was bending to a radius 112 times the thickness ikea bends to a radius of just 34 times thickness.
With glue between each lamination a press is used to bend the bundle of laminations around a form.
In this video workshop michael c.
Wide by 17 in.
Although curves can be intimidating fortune walks you through the entire process of building and using forms to achieve bent laminations that will stand the test of time.
The challenge was to design a.
I started by making a mould for back rest and and seat.
So the first order of business is to build the form followed by cutting the wood into lamination strips.
Annette koehnen koehnen built this european ash chair 28 in.
Bent laminations don t take a lot of specialized equipment.
Tall as part of a commission for a dining table and 12 chairs.
A bent lamination is simply a board sliced into thin flexible plies and glued back together in a form to create the desired shape see photo above.
A video of making a bent lamination chair.
Bent lamination chair finewoodworking woodworker.