Overall i bent 4 mm thick strips into a 45 cm radius circle.
Bent lamination chair.
With glue between each lamination a press is used to bend the bundle of laminations around a form.
A few thick laminations will tend to spring more than many thin pieces.
Bottom part of the mould is rigid and keeps it s shape while the top part of the mould is more.
With experience you will get the feel for this but keep it in mind as you work with your first bent parts.
Wide by 17 in.
I made it from some leftover osb and plywood as shown in the video.
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The challenge was to design a.
Annette koehnen koehnen built this european ash chair 28 in.
Tall as part of a commission for a dining table and 12 chairs.
Deep by 40 in.
I started by making a mould for back rest and and seat.
So while i was bending to a radius 112 times the thickness ikea bends to a radius of just 34 times thickness.
So the first order of business is to build the form followed by cutting the wood into lamination strips.
Bent laminations don t take a lot of specialized equipment.
Make the radius of your form just an eighth inch or so smaller than you want to final part to be.
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.
Once the glue dries the workpiece will hold it s new shape.
Bent lamination chair finewoodworking woodworker.
In this video workshop michael c.
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.
I saw a lot of similar design in metal and decided to try and make one in wood.