If your radii is tight you can use 1 16 wisa italian bending plywood.
Woods good for bent lamination.
The concept is actually pretty simple.
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.
Lamination is different than veneering.
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.
So your best bet with heavilyt curved parts is to either steam bed the material to shape or do a bent lamination.
A laminate is simply anything made up of two or more layers of material.
The process starts with ripping some thin strips of wood and applying glue to each strip.
I recommend unibond 800.
The technique to produce the laminate is called lamination.
It also cleans up easily with water.
It just seems that these are good choices for my first attempt at bent lamination because of the open time.
Bent lamination is a process of bending thin strips of wood using lots of glue and lots of clamps.
Quite a while back i did a series of glue tests on bent laminations.
It s messy but rewarding to see a gracefully bent piece of wood emerge from a glue encrusted form.
This is a perfect example of a situation where bent lamination is a good choice.
Pictured left you can see a closeup of one of the rockers on my maloof inspired rocker.
Bent lamination just introduces the element of curving the laminate.
Apply a laminate or glue to the wood.
The more seams you have the less chance for springback.
What you need to use for bent wood lamination is 1 8 bending poplar plywood that comes in either long or short grain.