Bent Lamination Chair

In this video workshop michael c.
Bent lamination chair. The challenge was to design a. Overall i bent 4 mm thick strips into a 45 cm radius circle. A wide variety of bent lamination chair options are available to you such as home furniture commercial furniture and outdoor furniture. With experience you will get the feel for this but keep it in mind as you work with your first bent parts.
On the famous ikea chairs the legs are laminated out of strips of 1 3 mm in thickness and are bent to a radius as low as 45 mm in places. Bent laminations don t take a lot of specialized equipment. With glue between each lamination a press is used to bend the bundle of laminations around a form. Tall as part of a commission for a dining table and 12 chairs.
So while i was bending to a radius 112 times the thickness ikea bends to a radius of just 34 times thickness. Once the glue dries the workpiece will hold it s new shape. Fortune shows you step by step how to build a beautiful garden chair with classy curves. So the first order of business is to build the form followed by cutting the wood into lamination strips.
Although curves can be intimidating fortune walks you through the entire process of building and using forms to achieve bent laminations that will stand the test of time. A few thick laminations will tend to spring more than many thin pieces. Make the radius of your form just an eighth inch or so smaller than you want to final part to be. Deep by 40 in.
A bent lamination is simply a board sliced into thin flexible plies and glued back together in a form to create the desired shape see photo above. I started by making a mould for back rest and and seat. Bottom part of the mould is rigid and keeps it s shape while the top part of the mould is more. A video of making a bent lamination chair.
Bent lamination chair finewoodworking woodworker. Wide by 17 in.