Bent Lamination Form

I had several questions come up after the original video was published that i thought were good ones that also correspond with the video footage i had that didn t make the original cut.

Bent lamination form.

0 0 0 0. How to get those parts depends on what kind of wood you are working with and what is needed of the part. So here is a little more information on how i stained and finished the stone stained and finished the mahogany and built the bent lamination form. Once dry the resulting part will pretty much hold its shape forever.

Then i drove a brad nail at the start and ending points of the arch. The next question was more of a statement telling me that i glossed over all the details of building the bent lamination form for the arch. Affiliate links to some of the products i used. Many woodworking projects call for curved parts.

You draw out the design onto one board then cut and smooth that board. There is a correction to the lamination formula given in the video. After using an oscillating sander to clean up the inner curves and a disc sander to clean the outer curves trace your shape to another mdf board using your sanded shape and then rough cut the same shape only this time leave at least 1 16 of an inch between your cut and your pencil line. So the first order of business is to build the form followed by cutting the wood into lamination strips.

With glue between each lamination a press is used to bend the bundle of laminations around a form. Lamination is the process of bending many thin parts together and holding them in the desired shape until the glue between them dries. Then that board is used to trace the design onto more stacks of plywood. There are many ways to construct a form and apply pressure.

Cut it out template route rinse and repeat. For my current project i need some back slats for a set of dining chairs i was commissioned to build and needed to make a new form to build them. So to build the form i started out with a sheet of plywood where i plotted out the leg bench top and where i wanted the arch to end. Bent lamination forms are usually made the same way.

The process of bent lamination consists of slicing wood into thin strips coating it with glue and clamping it to a form until the glue dries. The first step is to draw a full scale template of your curve and then build a form. I have found that even the hardest woods are capable of being made into fluid curves with this technique.