I need some help. I am designing my home office furniture (desk) and want it to have some curves. So I am considering laminating together 5 pieces of 3/8 inch bending plywood to serve as the legs. The legs will be about 2 inches thick and almost as wide as the desk top so they will be fairly substantial in size. I have never used bending plywood before so I have a couple of questions I thought someone might be able to help me with. A crude drawing is attached...
1. What kind of a radius might I be able to achieve with 5 pieces of bending plywood.
2. Should I try and laminate them all at once in the vacuum bag or laminate 2 pieces, then the 3 and finally put the 2 lamminated pieces together?
3. How strong or maybe better said how much weight would the laminated leg support when the force is applied from top which is shown in the attached picture as "Force - High". The top of the desk would sit on the laminated legs so it will have some weight to it and then all the stuff that goes on the top of the desk like a monitor, keyboard, etc.
Any thoughts or ideas are appreciated.
Regards,
Bill
1. What kind of a radius might I be able to achieve with 5 pieces of bending plywood.
2. Should I try and laminate them all at once in the vacuum bag or laminate 2 pieces, then the 3 and finally put the 2 lamminated pieces together?
3. How strong or maybe better said how much weight would the laminated leg support when the force is applied from top which is shown in the attached picture as "Force - High". The top of the desk would sit on the laminated legs so it will have some weight to it and then all the stuff that goes on the top of the desk like a monitor, keyboard, etc.
Any thoughts or ideas are appreciated.
Regards,
Bill