Bending/fexible wood

You might want to create bending/flexible area on your laser cutting models, to make boxes or curved wood objects.

This can be done in various ways. Depending on the pattern, you could make the wood bend in 1 or 2 directions.

(Note that everything you'll see here could probably be done with plastic like PMMA or Plexiglass)

1 way bending

For hinges, curved hedges : 

https://www.core77.com/posts/36481/adventures-in-laser-kerf-bending

2 way bending, double curvature

For flexible surfaces, more complex objects  : 

https://lab.kofaktor.hr/en/portfolio/super-flexible-laser-cut-plywood/