Hello all,
I came up with a project idea some time ago that has a piece of the project that needs to be a laminated bent piece, the piece is a small 3/4 wide piece about 25" long with one end turned up like a water ski but at a higher angle, I would estiamte the angle to be 45-50 degrees and a bend radius of about 5 inches.
I built a MDF mold and built a prototype using maple, resawing the strips to a thickness of about 1/16 or slightly thinner. Making this bend with the maple was fine.
Then I anted to make the same thing from Cherry and went through the same process but bad results, it almost always wants to split at the radius, I even tried a bit of hot pipe bending to get them close then use the form and still no luck. Is Cherry not a good selection for bending????