The formula is y amount of springback x depth of chord desired to bend n number of layers.
Bent lamination furniture.
Woodworkers use bent wood laminations for everything from chair rockers to drawer handles.
For this demo i used a thin rip jig and zero clearance throat plate to cut a number of thin strips for bending.
Bent laminations do more than give your project a graceful look.
See the following examples.
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.
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.
The table is made from ash.
These window frames are bent laminations.
The thickness of the parts is largely determined by your bend.
The obvious first step is to prepare the laminations.
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.
My focus for the last several years has been sculpted furniture rocking chairs 5 and occasional chairs in the hal taylor scott morrison styles.
The curved doors on the end of the peninsula are laminated.
Titebond 3 tb3 has a longer open time than tb2 and yields a darker glue line when dry.
Both are an excellent choice for bent lamination.
There is a correction to the lamination formula given in the video.
The last couple months i have been making a new table for my wife and i.
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.
The back slats are bent laminations.