Lewis & Hill Kitchens

"We have been using the Curvomatic system for the manufacture of our curved cabinet doors and panels, and have found it to be an extremely accurate, quick and easy to use method of making formers for curved components.

It has proved to be extremely versatile and saved us considerable costs as the system is reusable. Materials, waste and dust are minimal compared to the traditional method of making laminated MDF formers,added to which is the benefit of lower labour costs with this much quicker system. I would highly recommend this product."

Simon Lewis

Director 

Lewis&Hill Ltd 

www.lewisandhill.co.uk

Carpow Logboat

3000 year old solid oak bending at almost 90 degrees

The National Museums of Scotland have been working on the excavation, recovery and conservation of a 3,000 year old Carpow Logboat. They have used Curvomatic to build formers to reshape a Neolithic oak logboat that was found waterlogged on the Tay estuary.


"Here are some workshop photo’s of some of the bending in action.The logboat has to be heated with industrial heating blankets , we get the wood up to core temperature of about 70-80 degress c, remove the blankets and apply the curvomatic former. 

It has worked really well and the beauty is that we can remake the formers very quickly to suit the areas which we wanted to bend. It is really strong and robust and we have managed to some really tight bends. One gunwhale of the boat (top right) has had to bent almost 90 degrees, previously this was almost a flat piece"



Charles Stable, National Museums of Scotland

Niche Designs

The creators of Curvomatic
"We developed this system due to the large number of Bagpress moulds that we were having to make and then store. Curvomatic moulds can be constructed in 10 to 15 minutes and the formers can be stored easily if you wish to keep them at all. We never expected that the system would actually work to a higher standard than all the other systems that we have used. The accuracy and strength of the Curvomatic  mould is unparalleled by any other non CNC method and the lamination system works 100% of the time with a mere scraping of glue. The running cost of the system is practically nothing once you have purchased it as the extrusions are extremely durable."