For the back of the chair I needed to bend pieces that were roughly 2 1/2 inches wide. I didn't want to cut that many thin pieces that wide on my table saw and I don't have a band saw. I decided to cut one piece at 3/16 thick and a wider piece I would kerf cut to bend. Cutting pieces like this on the table saw was not very fun. I went very slow in multiple passes but still was nervous.