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Don Stephan

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Subject : RE: Veneering angles speaker boxes
Posted : 2020-01-23 7:29 PM
Post #37881 - In reply to #37880
Several decades ago I was asked to make a pair of tapered rectangular stands, to be covered with alive ash burl. These were the first open-bottom boxes (if you will) I was asked to veneer, and didn't it would be compatible with a 4' x 8' vacuum bag. I had read an article in Fine Woodworking by a respected author saying he had been successful applying a coat of yellow glue to a substrate, letting it dry, laying a sheet of raw veneer over it, and then re-activatig the glue by ironing the veneer onto the surface. It seemed to work very well, but I had a book matched seam running up the veneer sheet on all four surfaces. The next day the veneer was firmly attached everywhere but several of the book matches had opened up perhaps 1/8". After filling the gaps I spent days trying to paint over the filler with shellac and dry pigments. I've veneered a number of similar stands since then, but always used a vacuum bag without a similar problem.

I had flattened the veneer using flattening solution, and perhaps the veneer was not as completely dry as it could have been. I have vacuum pressed veneer I had to flatten a number of times since then using plastic resin adhesive, without seams opening.

By all means feel free to experiment with ironing on your veneer, but I will not iron on veneer again.
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