I recommend unibond 800.
Woods good for bent lamination.
So your best bet with heavilyt curved parts is to either steam bed the material to shape or do a bent lamination.
It s messy but rewarding to see a gracefully bent piece of wood emerge from a glue encrusted form.
It s a urea formaldehyde glue with three shades of powdered catalyst to better match the wood you re using.
The more seams you have the less chance for springback.
If your radii is tight you can use 1 16 wisa italian bending plywood.
Apply a laminate or glue to the wood.
These sheets come in 4 x 8.
Lamination is different than veneering.
A laminate is simply anything made up of two or more layers of material.
Quite a while back i did a series of glue tests on bent laminations.
Pictured left you can see a closeup of one of the rockers on my maloof inspired rocker.
It also cleans up easily with water.
The process starts with ripping some thin strips of wood and applying glue to each strip.
The concept is actually pretty simple.
Bent lamination just introduces the element of curving the laminate.
If you ve ever glued two pieces of wood together face to face you ve essentially created a laminate.
Epoxy is also a good choice for bent laminations but it costs almost twice as much as urea formaldehyde.
It just seems that these are good choices for my first attempt at bent lamination because of the open time.
Standard wood glue is not the best choice for bent laminations.
The technique to produce the laminate is called lamination.
What you need to use for bent wood lamination is 1 8 bending poplar plywood that comes in either long or short grain.