Coffee Tables Part II: Bending Wood

These Coffee tables go with Round Couches

So, to be a comfortable foot rest, the coffee table must also be round. 

To build straight boards into round coffee tables, we must bend the wood.

The first thing we need is a form that is the exact radius of the finished coffee table.

Second, we cut a thick board into three thin boards. Bent wood has layers.

Then we use lots of glue and lots of clamps. 

Half a pint of glue, and maybe 20 clamps should do it.

Let it sit like that overnight. When it is dry, you can remove the clamps, and the wood is bent.

Use a block plane to clean up the edges, and you're ready to assemble the tables.