Friday, September 18, 2009
Quickly Incorporate Curves Into Your Project
Toolmonger: "If you want to incorporate curves into your project, there are a few ways to do it. You can cut wood into thin strips of veneer and build up a curve layer by layer, you can steam the wood, or you can cut closely-spaced kerfs. Using KerfKore panels is another way to skip these time-consuming methods and get down to building."
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This is a really interesting product. The amount of time that this can save could be substantial enough to make the cost/sheet not seem so bad. The downside is the structural integrity of the product may not be that of other methods of bending wood products. Last year for into the woods there was a great deal of bendy Lauan that was used for the tower. The bendy board worked just fine and was fairly easy to install. In a normal situation, I think going back to earlier methods of bending wood products will be the best solution.
This is a rill cool product that is very cool, it seems like is is some what expensive but it would be one of thous products that you can uses when the project is in a in a time crunch or you wont sertent type of look. the way that they sighted that you could do this befor was very labor intensive and tock a long time to get done. so i think that this is a greet way of geting a curved surface with not that much work or effort. i would like to see some of this and see how well it works. so this product to insetting.
I'm glad to hear that they finally made a product that can do this so easily. before, it would be so annoying to try to get a curve in a project. Even though the concept seems to be the same, the materials have gotten better. I'm not sure how stiff it is though, which could be the trade off -- adding structural support to it.
This is cool. I've seen the technique done before, cutting the kerfs on the table saw, and results have been good. If they are cut on an angle, you can even make interesting twists out of a solid piece of wood. For our industry, I think this is easy enough that it may be worth us just doing it for ourselves, but for on site construction where a table saw is not handy or practical, this product would be quite useful.
I can't really imagine a use for this product, interesting as it is. I mean, depending on the application, if you have a tight corner to build, you're either going to want it to resemble the rest of the piece (i.e. wood grain) or else are going to put a paint treatment on it. If you're going to paint it, ideally you would want the same material to face EVERYTHING so the paint looks even. So if you wanted to use it for facing a curve, you're gonna have to cover it with something not that flexible anyways.
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