Woods Good For Bent Lamination

The process starts with ripping some thin strips of wood and applying glue to each strip.

Woods good for bent lamination.

If your radii is tight you can use 1 16 wisa italian bending plywood. Pictured left you can see a closeup of one of the rockers on my maloof inspired rocker. It just seems that these are good choices for my first attempt at bent lamination because of the open time. So your best bet with heavilyt curved parts is to either steam bed the material to shape or do a bent lamination.

What you need to use for bent wood lamination is 1 8 bending poplar plywood that comes in either long or short grain. This is a perfect example of a situation where bent lamination is a good choice. Standard wood glue is not the best choice for bent laminations. It s a urea formaldehyde glue with three shades of powdered catalyst to better match the wood you re using.

Epoxy is also a good choice for bent laminations but it costs almost twice as much as urea formaldehyde. The concept is actually pretty simple. A laminate is simply anything made up of two or more layers of material. Apply a laminate or glue to the wood.

It s messy but rewarding to see a gracefully bent piece of wood emerge from a glue encrusted form. 10 layers 1 8 at about 5 radius after the glue had cured for 24 hours on the form the parts were laid aside for at least a week. The technique to produce the laminate is called lamination. Lamination is different than veneering.

I recommend unibond 800. If you ve ever glued two pieces of wood together face to face you ve essentially created a laminate. Bent lamination is a process of bending thin strips of wood using lots of glue and lots of clamps. The more seams you have the less chance for springback.

Quite a while back i did a series of glue tests on bent laminations.