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Darryl Keil
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Larry,As far as the bleed through on your burl, bleed through is really OK. A lot of bleed through is a pain to scrape and sand off but on burl its hard to eliminate it completely.Now, bleed through on cherry with Unibond 800 is another story because the combination of the two can stain cherry greenish gray just where the glue bleeds through. With regular cherry you can reduce the glue to prevent the bleed through, with curly cherry this is next to impossible as the curl bleeds easily. One other issue, this staining only happens on certain cherry, cherry that usually tends to be extra "pinky". So I would do a test to find out how the cherry you have reacts. You could also size it with the flattening forumla which on cherry should completely elimiate any bleed through.Unfortunately the thing in Unibond 800 that can cause staining on cherry and maple is the very thing that makes this glue preform so well. We dont want to remove the very qualities that make it such a good glue. No one glue seems to be the all perfect glue although I like to think Unibond is close to it for veneering.With your inlay, I would tape it up when you put on your short grain border. I find it easiest at that point. Stripping out really narrow pieces of veneer is the hard part. Thats where the veneer knife we carry really preforms great.SincerelyDarryl Keil: Darryl,: Thanks for a great site -- it really helped get me through my first veneered piece. I enjoyed it enough to start on a second. : This will be a low chest (about 28") with three banks of graduated drawers. I've bought curly cherry veneer for the face and : maple for the backer. I'm debating using Birdseye maple to border the drawer faces.: The glue went straight through the burl in my first piece even though I'd sized it (I wonder if I goofed on the size formula). : Will the curly cherry have similar problems or would its grain be less convoluted grain and less open?: I intend to use Unibond 800 but I'm concerned about staining the cherry, and I don't know whether staining is uniform over a : sheet or if it's localized the way blotching might be. Should I be OK testing a small sample or do I need to press a full sheet : to test for possible staining?: If I wanted to put in a line between a border and the field on a drawer face, is it easier to lay up and tape it in before : pressing or inlaying it after the panel is glued up (like a Federal line inlay)?: Very Respectfully,: Larry
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