This bent laminated rocking chair was the third in a series of chairs that bonnett has been working on for more than four years.
Bent laminate cyqir.
The laminations can also be created with a male female press but this can be very time consuming and complicated with limited success.
Any help on this subject would be great.
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Below i will demonstrate some basic techniques to achieve the desired result.
The primary tool needed to create bent laminations is a vacuum press.
Each succeeding chair has more curved parts.
Woodworkers use bent wood laminations for everything from chair rockers to drawer handles.
I need to make a bent lamination for these faces that are 17 wide and range from 12 to 9 tall.
The finish spec is high density plastic laminate.
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.
Both are an excellent choice for bent lamination.
Laminated chair back.
My focus for the last several years has been sculpted furniture rocking chairs 5 and occasional chairs in the hal taylor scott morrison styles.
Bent laminations do more than give your project a graceful look.
The second is a single form and a clamping block made of bending plywood and hardwood blocks.
The laminate layers are sandwiched in between the clamping block and the form.