First time doing bent lamination and i made a 49 ply curved cutting board from walnut mahogany and cherry.
Bent lamination cutting board.
First time doing bent lamination and i made a 49 ply curved cutting board from walnut mahogany and cherry.
I tried my hand at bent lamination and made a curved cutting board with 49 layers out of walnut mahogany and cherry.
It was my first time ever trying bent lamination and it went much better than i had expected.
Then that board is used to trace the design onto more stacks of plywood.
With glue between each lamination a press is used to bend the bundle of laminations around a form.
I used bent lamination and 49 layers of wood to make a curved cutting board.
In this instructable i ll show you how to make a curved cutting board using bent lamination.
Once dry the resulting part will pretty much hold its shape forever.
Curved cutting board with bent lamination.
You can use these same techniques for any bent wood laminati.
The concept is actually pretty simple.
If you haven t tried bent lamination it s really fun.
Using clamps or a vacuum press and we will look at both methods.
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Thick boards don t bend well but thin ones do.
Lamination is the process of bending many thin parts together and holding them in the desired shape until the glue between them dries.
Bent lamination forms are usually made the same way.
Cut it out template route rinse and repeat.
So we simply cut a board into thin strips so that when bundled together the strips can flex to the desired shape.
There are two basic ways to clamp the parts while the glue dries.
I m planing a bent lamination project i have big blue to cut up the laminations they will be about 1 8 thick or slightly less how smooth do the pieces have to be to be glued together.
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Whether that cutting board is a generational hand me down from your great grandma sue who proclaimed the board was made from the original planks of the mayflower itself or just a battered hunk of wood from the dollar store every chef feels a deep pang upon seeing a warped cutting board.