Bent Lamination Furniture

Both are an excellent choice for bent lamination.
Bent lamination furniture. The last couple months i have been making a new table for my wife and i. Please subscribe to my channel so you never miss a thing. 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. The thickness of the parts is largely determined by your bend.
The curved doors on the end of the peninsula are laminated. Woodworkers use bent wood laminations for everything from chair rockers to drawer handles. Since bent lamination is used only for narrow parts such as drawer fronts table legs and aprons and chair parts the form can be fairly narrow. For this demo i used a thin rip jig and zero clearance throat plate to cut a number of thin strips for bending.
Often times curved laminations are needed to produce a certain trim or accent piece or even a structural component of the furniture we are building. The obvious first step is to prepare the laminations. My focus for the last several years has been sculpted furniture rocking chairs 5 and occasional chairs in the hal taylor scott morrison styles. The back slats are bent laminations.
The table is made from ash. See the following examples. When used as a structural element such as a table leg they are actually stronger than if the piece were cut from a single block of wood. Bent laminations do more than give your project a graceful look.
Shallow curves can be made up of fewer thicker laminations while tighter curves need more thin laminations. Titebond 3 tb3 has a longer open time than tb2 and yields a darker glue line when dry. There is a correction to the lamination formula given in the video.