Was just watching an appeals court video and the desks for the defense and prosecutors were very curved

How is wood made to curve like that while keeping it level/flat?

  • tburkhol@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    If there’s multiple pieces, there will be seams, although they may not be visible in a video. This is one of the reasons people ‘fake’ bends: build up the structural wood from multiple pieces, which gets good strength while minimizing material usage, then cover the bent surface with a thin (ie, flexible & inexpensive) veneer, and trim that the to final shape.

    Most of the methods mushroommunk described are good for curving wood along its long axis, making the visible/usable surface of the wood curved.

    If you mean the desk top is curved, like a C-shape around the user, then they’ve probably just cut the curve into a big sheet or two of engineered lumber (eg. plywood), and covered that with veneer.