Are you interested in bent lamination and other related things?

[Mike King]

I'm with Mike -- that lounge chair build was great to watch. I was thinking 3-4 mm strips, but my eyesight isn't that great. At first I felt, "Maybe I could do this, too" until the giant robot arm started cutting out all those parts -- that was awesome, but also intimidating and put it into a league in which I do not play

That's just a mechanism to save time. You can do the same thing by making a template and pattern routing the pieces.

[Steve Demuth]

I love bent wood, laminated or otherwise.

I have been making baskets of late from a combination of steam bent hardwood, with laminated structural components. This is a garden trug I made for my wife. Air dried, steam bent, quarter sawn walnut and red elm for the slats. The structural rim is steam bent 1/8" red elm that is then glue laminated to get the dimension needed. The combination of curves and lamination makes for an incredibly rigid and tough basket that is feather light.

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[Dan Friedrichs]

That's beautiful, Steve!

[Mark Gibney]

I love those baskets Steve, beautiful.
These should have their own thread.

[Christopher Charles]

Agree about the baskets and that they should have a thread of their own!

Best,
Chris

[Steve Demuth]

Here's another. Thought I had uploaded this one in the first post, but somehow got the basket full of veggies instead.

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