What Is Laminate Bending

In this edition we look at forming wood parts using thin laminates.

What is laminate bending.

Lamination is the process of bending many thin parts together and holding them in the desired shape until the glue between them. Attach the laminate carefully. Wax is a good idea as well for a belt and suspenders approach. We started this wood bending series exploring simple and kerf bending.

As with the cold bending method you want to leave an extra 1 2 to the width of the laminate to trim later. Clamp the laminate strips to your table before sanding. Beginning with one end attach the laminate firmly to the edge of the counter and use your j roller to flatten and tighten it down. We ll be using wilsonart laminate and would like suggestions on bending the laminate around this radius edge.

The countertop will be 2 1 4 thick. Cutting from a solid piece of wood. Steaming wood to the required curve 3. I also like to use cork on the bending surfaces to help distribute the pressure evenly.

Laminate several many layers using thin strips of wood called veneers. Forum responses laminate and solid surface forum from contributor e. Gluing thin veneers strips of thin wood together to form the curve. The entire form is covered in packing tape to prevent the glue from sticking.

In materials science a composite laminate is an assembly of layers of fibrous composite materials which can be joined to provide required engineering properties including in plane stiffness bending stiffness strength and coefficient of thermal expansion.