I think most of us have no problem differentiating between the concepts of "bent" and "curved", indeed as John Pattons reply to my post clearly shows... along with most of the comments and replies I get. Terrys description below gets a bit murky... but then we all know what he is talking about... and he used a whole sentence to qualify the phrase "bend a curve". That said I'm not really certain that laminated form is best equated with the word "bend"... even in the context of the discussion which was a reply to JD's querry on the matter. I dare say the laminated crowned rib performs more like a machine crowned rib then a bent one. Cheers RicB I "bend a curve" into all my ribs by laminating five to seven laminations of Sitka Spruce ranging from about three to five millimeters thick. Several small shops are building ribs in a similar manner. Terry Farrell > I think the bent curve that Ron was originally referring to was by virtue of > the panel expanding after the ribs are glued on and bending the otherwise > flat rib which is the process in a pure CC board. > > David Love My point was and is that people don't differentiate between a rib that was built with a crown in it, and a straight one that was pressed into a caul. "Yea, the ribs are curved - we press them on the board in a curved caul". Noun or verb? Ron N
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