Bent Lamination Woodworking

Bent lamination makes strong curved parts that wouldn t be possible with steam bending or sawing.

Bent lamination woodworking.

The wood used was hard maple one of the more difficult from both the glue adhesion and bending stiffness. Bent wood lamination basics 10 tips for making strong graceful curves that add a new dimension to your woodworking. Thanks and keep inspiring. You could also use resorcinol epoxy or polyurethane glue for an application like ours.

Check out bent laminations. I have to make a number of chair back arm rests out of a bent lamination. If your project won t be exposed to the weather you can use almost any good wood glue. You ll find a whole new world of possibilities to explore.

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. Then put against the original form. It s messy but rewarding to see a gracefully bent piece of wood emerge from a glue encrusted form. This project started as a trip to some of the local art museums searching for inspiration.

Which wood would be the best for bent wood lamination. Quite a while back i did a series of glue tests on bent laminations. Alex july 6 2016 11 36 am hey marc i have a question concerning clean up. We decided to make the bent wood ribs of our replica wright gliders by laminating the parts with a water resistant aliphatic resin yellow glue.

Bent laminating is an easily acquired skill that will open up new avenues for expressing your woodworking creativity. Over the course of this journey i learned about a new form of woodworking steam bending and bent lamination and a lot about myself. Because it is achieved through gluing up thin laminates it works with most wood species and the multiple face grain glue joints give a bent laminated curve great strength. Jason bent of bent s woodworking releases bi weekly youtube videos sharing tips and tricks how to s build videos and more all in an effort to make you a better woodworker.

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. Bent lamination is a process of bending thin strips of wood using lots of glue and lots of clamps. My entry for the rockler bent wood challenge hosted by rockler and the modern maker podcast. Bent lamination if you are one of those woodworkers who has thought about how nice it would be to use bent lamination in a project but are intimidated by the process think again.

I want to run this over the jointer which should is easy enough.