Saw these online and love the look. Would love to make these for my nephew who has a nautical theme room. Not sure how to bend the wood for the sides and keep the structural integrity...Ideas?
These are cute! I know there is a way of bending wood by using thin sheets of plywood and gluing them together while clamping them to some kind of rounded form. I'm not sure how this works exactly and would love to get some instructions.
I made some fake boats for a high school play: they were two or more strips of thin plywood. (1/4 or 3/8 bends nicely.)
Because of the bend, they will not be the same length, so you will have to trial fit and mark, then cut and finish the install.
1 - Make the back "boat-shaped" out of 3/4 plywood
2 - Attach the shelves to the back with screws from the back side. You will need a temporary brace across the front to keep the shelves square to the back.
3 - Screw and glue the first strip to the shelves, straight through the plywood. Use glue on the back piece because screwing into plywood doesn't work well.
4 -Clamp the second strip in place and mark where the pointy end comes to so you can cut it the right length.
5 - The next one is screwed at the bottom, then glued and clamped along the sides, with a couple of screws into the shelves
6 - Finsh by cutting a triangle of wood for the pointy end and gluing it to the tip
silky
Fri, 09/24/2010 - 22:34
These are cute! I know there is a way of bending wood by using thin sheets of plywood and gluing them together while clamping them to some kind of rounded form. I'm not sure how this works exactly and would love to get some instructions.
Tsu Dho Nimh
Sat, 09/25/2010 - 05:59
I made some fake boats for a high school play: they were two or more strips of thin plywood. (1/4 or 3/8 bends nicely.)
Because of the bend, they will not be the same length, so you will have to trial fit and mark, then cut and finish the install.
1 - Make the back "boat-shaped" out of 3/4 plywood
2 - Attach the shelves to the back with screws from the back side. You will need a temporary brace across the front to keep the shelves square to the back.
3 - Screw and glue the first strip to the shelves, straight through the plywood. Use glue on the back piece because screwing into plywood doesn't work well.
4 -Clamp the second strip in place and mark where the pointy end comes to so you can cut it the right length.
5 - The next one is screwed at the bottom, then glued and clamped along the sides, with a couple of screws into the shelves
6 - Finsh by cutting a triangle of wood for the pointy end and gluing it to the tip