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DouginDenver

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Subject : Need a little advice on restoration
Posted : 2010-09-30 10:29 PM
Post #36174
I am trying to restore a wooden chess board my father bought my mother about 65 years ago. It is about 24" x 24" and the core is solid wood - probably maple. The top playing surface is veneered (as is the bottom). The top has a band around the edge of mahogany veneer maybe 1 1/2" wide. The squares of the playing surface are walnut and maple. The veneer is 1/32" thick. The squares are 1 3/4" square.

Here's the problem. About a third of the squares - almost all maple -have started to curl up along the edge parallel to the grain. Where they have curled up enough to be above the surface of the adjacent walnut square the fix is easy - put some glue under the edges and put it in the press. But most of them have not curled up nearly that much. There is glue failure only along the very edge, such that the lifting along the edge is almost imperceptible but will look really bad if I finish as is. Any attempt to lift the edges will just break off a sliver of veneer. What can I do? My only thought was to squeege some yellow glue along the affected seams in hopes that a tiny amount would get underneath - just enough to hold once pressed. Better ideas?


 
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Don Stephan

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Subject : RE: Need a little advice on restoration
Posted : 2010-10-02 5:55 PM
Post #36175 - In reply to #36174
If you are lucky, the veneers were attached with hide glue. It is the only glue to which fresh hot hide glue will stick to old hide glue.
If the piece was made new 65 years ago it may be during the time when modern glues were replacing hot hide glue.
Warm water will reactivate dried hide glue with several light applications. If there is some exposed dried glue you can try wiping with a wet q-tip or brush a couple times a minute for say 5 minutes (all relative) and see if the glue becomes sticky again. Your work would just be beginning, but that would be the best circumstance, based on what I have read.
Let us know if the adhesive seems to be hide glue.
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