Bent Lamination Thickness

Anything thicker was prone to splitting.
Bent lamination thickness. Cutting laminates on the bandsaw cutting your own laminates is best done with a bandsaw. How thin you cut the strips depends on a number of factors include the wood s natural bending properties the severity of the curve and your tolerance for springback. 1 8 1 4 is common but i usually end up somewhere around 3 16. As to ply thickness.
Shallow curves can be made up of fewer thicker laminations while tighter curves need more thin laminations. Bent lamination is a process of bending thin strips of wood using lots of glue and lots of clamps. The process starts with ripping some thin strips of wood and applying glue to each strip. The thickness of the parts is largely determined by your bend.
For a 6 radius bend using kiln dried walnut the best i could do was 13 laminations per inch. Bending plywood is available in 5 16 and thicknesses and comes in several species including poplar birch and lauan in standard sized sheets 4 x 8 with the veneer layers running either lengthwise or widthwise. There s some info in the may issue of american woodworker on bent wood laminations. Start with a desired thickness thin until it survives the bend radius.
It s messy but rewarding to see a gracefully bent piece of wood emerge from a glue encrusted form. Lamination ply radius thickness 2 4 3 32 4 8 1 8 8 12 3 16 12 1 4.