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   user-148830 | Aug 12, 2007 12:52am | #1

   Hi Dan,
   If I understand you correctly, your multiple laminations are each 2" tall. The more of them you use the less springback you'll have. But they
   can't come out just right in length. You'll have to glue them up and then trim them to length. There's too much slipping around with these kinds of laminations to guarantee that your ends will come out right. On the other hand trimming them after they're glued up shouldn't be too hard if you make a holding jig for your saw.

   Now if you're laminating 3/4" x 2" tall pieces together at their ends to make this oval then some kind of scarf joint, an angled crosscut if you will, makes the prettiest type of lamination. Good luck. Gary

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   djsawdust | Aug 12, 2007 03:25am | #2

   Hi Gary, thanks for the response. You have the idea, multiple laminations thin enough  to make the curves,around a form and clamping as I go around keeping it all tight to the form until I get to the overlaping ends. I guess at that point I would make my scarf joint nibbling with a hand saw that is loading up with glue .as I continue to bring my laminations down tight to the form ? Thanks Dan

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   user-148830 | Aug 12, 2007 03:58am | #3

   Dan,
   So you're doing the whole thing? I thought you were just doing half the oval. If you're doing half and meet the curved piece up with the back rails again I say, do the lamination, let it dry, and then trim the ends on your table saw. This way you have half a chance to get these to line up nicely. You can join the curved rail to the rear rail with any number of options then, a finger joint or slot mortise and tenon, a spline.Now if you're going all the way round with the oval, I'd do it in two sections, glue those up, trim the ends and then spline them together. Have fun and good luck. Gary

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   djsawdust | Aug 12, 2007 04:23am | #4

   Hi Gary, thanks for the response again.I am going all the way around with the 3/4 by 2"apron, and had hoped to only have one seam in the back, I was trying to not have a seam in 2 places as it will be exposed all th way around except for the back where the seam would be up against the wall, as this is a bathroom vanity. thanks again  Dan