On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 12:01:58 -0800 (PST), "js.b1" wrote:

Very slow way...
- Buy veneer of whatever you want. Create former for the arch, screwed
& glued layers of MDF. Fold veneer around arch, glue, repeat until a
sufficient large number of bent layers built up. Leave to set as long
as necessary.

Seen that done just that way -- only not veneer, but strips of wood maybe 3-4 mm
thick. Glue, then even up the thickness on a table saw. Glueing is less work
than it sounds...

(And then run the atched strip over a shaper head with a ball bearing ring to
cut the rebate. Serious tools, and seriously scary...)


Thomas Prufer