Bent Lamination Glue

The glue lines from jumping out.

Bent lamination glue.

It s messy but rewarding to see a gracefully bent piece of wood emerge from a glue encrusted form. There isn t one adhesive ideal for every application. Of these four glues urea resin and resorcinol achieve the most rigid glue line when cured. The gap filling properties of epoxy are of particular use when gluing bent lamination.

It s a urea formaldehyde glue with three shades of powdered catalyst to better match the wood you re using. While resorcinol has a. What type of glue should i use. A couple of glues that seem to be good choices for bent lamination are.

Once dry the resulting part will pretty much hold its shape forever. The term laminating can apply to three different procedures. Use a two part urea formaldehyde glue for bent laminations. Epoxy urea resin resorcinol and polyurethane are all good choices for bent laminations.

Pro glue unibond 800 i realize th. Bending wood part ii bent lamination. Gary herber langley none. The first is the one woodworkers use to glue together planks of wood to form a wide surface for a.

It sets hard but slowly. Quite a while back i did a series of glue tests on bent laminations. Epoxy and urea formaldehyde glue are much better for this application. I am interested in making bent laminations for furniture.

The wood used was hard maple one of the more difficult from both the glue adhesion and bending stiffness. In doing research before attempting my first bent lamination i m starting to look at the appropriate glue choice for the project. 10 layers 1 8 at about 5 radius after the glue had cured for 24 hours on the form the parts were laid aside for at least a week. Pva glues have a tendency to creep over time and wouldn t be my first choice for bent lamination.

The long open time takes the frenzy out of glue up. With domestic wood laminations the simplest and least visible glue is pva polyvinyl acetate yellow glue. Types of glue for laminating. Bent lamination is a process of bending thin strips of wood using lots of glue and lots of clamps.

Because bent laminations are under constant stress they require glue that sets hard. Bending wood part ii bent lamination. I recommend unibond 800. David marks has a nice article on using urea formaldehyde glue.