Jim Barstow
07-05-2009, 12:32 PM
I've used bent laminations in couple projects but they were fairly simple and straightforward. I'm now going to try it on a much larger scale and build a queen-sized bed frame loosely based on the Windsor bed in the Taunton Press "Bed" book.
When I've done laminations before, I just milled lumber to the thickness of the laminations and ripped off the strips. For this bed, the strips are much thicker and finding stock has proven to be difficult. Is there any drawback to rotating the stock 90 degrees and ripping so that the face grain is glued up? I know I'll have to be careful about the grain selection. This would mean I could use thinner stock as a source of the lamination strips.
When I've done laminations before, I just milled lumber to the thickness of the laminations and ripped off the strips. For this bed, the strips are much thicker and finding stock has proven to be difficult. Is there any drawback to rotating the stock 90 degrees and ripping so that the face grain is glued up? I know I'll have to be careful about the grain selection. This would mean I could use thinner stock as a source of the lamination strips.