The last couple months i have been making a new table for my wife and i.
Bent lamination furniture.
Shallow curves can be made up of fewer thicker laminations while tighter curves need more thin laminations.
The obvious first step is to prepare the laminations.
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.
Bent laminations do more than give your project a graceful look.
Titebond 3 tb3 has a longer open time than tb2 and yields a darker glue line when dry.
The curved doors on the end of the peninsula are laminated.
My focus for the last several years has been sculpted furniture rocking chairs 5 and occasional chairs in the hal taylor scott morrison styles.
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.
There is a correction to the lamination formula given in the video.
The formula is y amount of springback x depth of chord desired to bend n number of layers.
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.
Both are an excellent choice for bent lamination.
Woodworkers use bent wood laminations for everything from chair rockers to drawer handles.
When used as a structural element such as a table leg they are actually stronger than if the piece were cut from a single block of wood.
These window frames are bent laminations.
The back slats are bent laminations.
See the following examples.
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The table is made from ash.