I want to make some thin, curved objects and the obvious method would be
to make them from laminated wood.

I don't need a huge quantity, maybe just enough to make a total running
length of a metre or two, with a width of 5cm and a thickness of 8-10 mm

Are there companies that supply wood of a suitable thickness ? Ordinary
veneer seems too thin, while conventional sizes of wood are too thick.

Roly wrote:
I want to make some thin, curved objects and the obvious method would be
to make them from laminated wood.

I don't need a huge quantity, maybe just enough to make a total running
length of a metre or two, with a width of 5cm and a thickness of 8-10 mm

Are there companies that supply wood of a suitable thickness ? Ordinary
veneer seems too thin, while conventional sizes of wood are too thick.

Model shops. Do it in thin plywood. Sizes from 1/64" up to 1/8" usually
stocked, with luck in 1 meter lengths, so you will have to join bits.

Otherwise contact SLEC and you can get as well as balsa, IIRC bass,
spruce mahoignay and maple in various thicknesses. They may even cut you
a special length.

Slec UK Limited
Units 8-10 Norwich Road Industrial Est
Watton, Norfolk, IP25 6DR
Tel: 01953 885279
Fax: 01953 889393
Email:

I made up curved glazing beads as laminates, using 5 layers of 2.5mm
sapele. This was very straight grained and I simply cut up boards on
the table saw with the fence set to 2.5mm - very quick and easy.

On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 23:25:56 GMT, (Roly) wrote:

I want to make some thin, curved objects and the obvious method would be
to make them from laminated wood.

Use veneer. A good supplier (I use Robbins in Bristol) will have
suitable "constructional" veneers in 1.5mm and 3mm, as well as the
thinner "decorative" veneers.

Andy Dingley wrote:

On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 23:25:56 GMT, (Roly) wrote:

I want to make some thin, curved objects and the obvious method would be
to make them from laminated wood.

Use veneer. A good supplier (I use Robbins in Bristol) will have
suitable "constructional" veneers in 1.5mm and 3mm, as well as the
thinner "decorative" veneers.

That's exactly the sort of answer I needed. I didn't know that veneer
came in any thicknesses other than imoractically thin for my purposes.

Now I know where to ask and what to ask for - many thanks.