Radial curved elliptical shapes and reverse curves are all possible.
Wood curved beams construction bent laminations.
Our beams are available in industrial architectural and premium appearance grades.
The flexibility of glulam beams allows for the designer s creative imagination to be realised.
Inside radius of 20 0 or more allows use of 2 nominal laminations.
The tightness of the radius will determine the thickness of the laminations.
Actually there s no magic required.
Pictured left you can see a closeup of one of the rockers on my maloof inspired rocker.
Use beam stress combinations e g.
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Pitched and tapered beams taper from the tangent point to a minimum end depth to provide maximum economy.
Optimal roof pitch is 2 12 to 3 12 though other roof pitches are possible.
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Laminated beams offer many advantages when building homes schools churches and commercial recreational and agricultural structures.
And the designer would prefer to see 3 thick pieces which means i have to make 24 3 x3 x10 beams curved on a 6 radius.
Factory made members can be formed into any practical shape and any desired size.
The finished beam needs to be 10 high to mate with the one remaining original straight roof section.
The concept is actually pretty simple.
Just a saw some wood some glue and a few time tested techniques.
So your best bet with heavilyt curved parts is to either steam bed the material to shape or do a bent lamination.
Rather than steam bending or bent lamination i am going to miter cut and join several pieces together and then use a bandsaw to rough out the shape finishing with a router template to get matching curves.
This is a perfect example of a situation where bent lamination is a good choice.
The rich warm feeling they create enhances any structure.
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But we couldn t get good laminations with a 14 delta bandsaw.
