Don Stephan
Posts: 825
Joined: 2003-07-18
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
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Jeff:
Glad to hear you were pleased with your first experience. I also think you were very gutsy to start with a burl.
I've gotten 95% of my veneer from Certainly Wood. I'm confident the other recommendations though are equally professional and reliable.
For practice and experimenting, I have sometimes purchased small bagged quantities of veneer from Woodcraft or the Paxton Lumber down the street just because it is more convenient than uncovering my stack of veneer sheets, cutting a piece, ... but the cost per square foot certainly is much higher.
A couple points of experience I can pass along. With vacuum pressing I hope to get occasional spotting of bleed through, perhaps 10% of the veneer surface, uniformly scattered across the sheet. This suggests the adhesive was about the right thickness. Second, Titebond (which I seldom use in vacuum pressing) and Unibond occasionally stain certain veneers, so I would recommend a test pressing with scraps of the veneer to be used. It's not uncommon to find a staining problem with veneer from one log and not with veneer from another log of the same species.
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