Bent Lamination Woodworking

Bent laminating is an easily acquired skill that will open up new avenues for expressing your woodworking creativity.

Bent lamination woodworking.

I want to run this over the jointer which should is easy enough. Which wood would be the best for bent wood lamination. Bent lamination is a process of bending thin strips of wood using lots of glue and lots of clamps. Is your woodworking ready to break free of the box.

My entry for the rockler bent wood challenge hosted by rockler and the modern maker podcast. The process starts with ripping some thin strips of wood and applying glue to each strip. If your project won t be exposed to the weather you can use almost any good wood glue. Then put against the original form.

Bent wood lamination basics 10 tips for making strong graceful curves that add a new dimension to your woodworking. Alex july 6 2016 11 36 am hey marc i have a question concerning clean up. I have to make a number of chair back arm rests out of a bent lamination. Basically the lamination is a half circle.

Quite a while back i did a series of glue tests on bent laminations. Check out bent laminations. You ll find a whole new world of possibilities to explore. 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.

Thanks and keep inspiring. This project started as a trip to some of the local art museums searching for inspiration. You could also use resorcinol epoxy or polyurethane glue for an application like ours. 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.

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. 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. Over the course of this journey i learned about a new form of woodworking steam bending and bent lamination and a lot about myself. 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.

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.