On 8/13/2013 3:21 PM, Mike Marlow wrote:

What nobody has really spoken to in this entire thread (unless I missed
it...) is just how is this type of work typically done? Come on - tables
like this are a dime a dozen. This should be something that is pretty well
understood by those who have ever looked at it. Seems more discussion has
been spent around what people wanted to intrepret in pictures than has been
spent in discussion about how this kind of thing is really typically done in
manufacturing.

Absolutely well understood methodology .... AAMOF, in a furniture
factory 99.9% of these curved aprons are made up of laminated strips of
solid wood glued to conform to a bending form.

If you ever watched a whole season of David J Mark's show, it would have
been difficult to miss a bent laminate project.

There is even an industry standard formula for determining the amount of
spring back based solely upon the _number of lamination's used_, not, as
one would think, thickness (which, if I ever knew, I have long since
forgotten).

If the table in question was not made using the "bent lamination"
methodology, I would be totally surprised.

The outside, "show" laminate strip, is what has apparently been sanded
through, and it may or may not be as thick as the interior laminate strips.

That's my tuppence, and I'm sticking to it as strictly a SWAG, short of
a hands on opportunity ... there is _always_ the odd situation that will
blow any theory/methodology out of the H2O.

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