Need help with making curved veneer seat.

I will try to explain this and can only hope it makes sence. You can make a solid form for the base and use square tube steel as your downward force. The bottom form will need a rigid lip or points of connection about every inch. If the base is say 20” wide, the tube steel will need to be atleast 24” long. The steel will cross the form perpendicular every inch or more depending of how tight the radius is. Drill holes into the ends of the bar, you can use carriage bolts or all-thread as clamps. These bolts then go up through the lip or points of intersection along the sides of the from. Use nuts with washers to tighten down the bars from the top. Wrap the form and the bottoms of the steel bars in cork as to not telegraph the shape of the steel onto the top of the seat frame. This will give you absolute control of the bend as you can tighten down individual bars at the appropriate inside radius working up the form. I have produced extreme radi with a smaller version of this method. The only drawback for you will be cost of set-up.
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Excellent idea! I see what youre talking about. Gives a new light on something that I could use for some other projects of mine too. Thanks Rhett.

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Jim, I think there are a few posts on this subject. If you search veneering you will find a lot there
Here’s a link
http://lumberjocks.com/search_results?cx=016283335483199634424%3A4na88symhay&cof=FORID%3A9&q=veneering&sa.x=24&sa.y=13

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