Wood Laminations and Springback

Most of the laminations I have done will within reason, retain the
shape they are set to when glued together. I have done laminations
where as the individual plies are NOT steam bent, and then glued in an
arc around a form. Once the glue dries the lamination holds the shape
of the form with zero or very little spring back. I would imagine you
could get some spring back if the lamination is highly stressed, that
is you are bending the hell out of the wood.

Good luck
Doug

"Doug Palmer" wrote

Once the glue dries the lamination holds the shape
of the form with zero or very little spring back. I would imagine you
could get some spring back if the lamination is highly stressed, that
is you are bending the hell out of the wood.

What he said.

If the parts have more that around a 9" radius to the bend, you will
probably get about 1/4" spring back. If the radius is significantly larger,
there will be less, possibly a lot less spring back.

I would imagine that the part will be anchored to other stuff to help it
maintain it's shape, right? If that is the case, you probably don't need to
take any special efforts into account.

Ain't wood wonderful? It has life, and personality. It talks to me.

I like it a whole lot better than rocks that have been heated to thousands
of degrees, and melted into shapes. It has no life; it has had all of its
personality scorched out of it. JMHO. :-)
--
Jim in NC