Veneering with an Iron

all right so i've got some veneer that i showed you guys um it's about 11 feet long and 13 14 inches wide and what i needed to do was take this veneer which is paper thin and book match these so that i can seam them together because right now it still has the wavy natural edge and then i'm going to veneer it onto this mdf um combo core plywood so what it is is a plywood structure with a very thin layer let me see if i can get in here of mdf on the top so that thing is 24 inches wide i'm going to cut my veneer right in the middle seam it and then veneer this entire 12 foot piece so that'll be quite interesting to joint the two natural edges of this veneer what i'm going to do is take a veneer saw put it on my track and i'm going to take this blade and just ride along the edge of the track until i saw through the veneer so uh what this does is it allows uh versus like a razor blade or something it allows a super crisp clean edge without catching the grain and then kind of splitting like a razor blade tends to do so i'll take this track i've already done the cut um and show you guys the edge so my edge is just as straight as the aluminum track and i had them doubled up so now i can joint these two together with tape all right so i've opened up my two pieces of walnut um and because i'm jointing that i need that edge to match up perfectly so it's very hard to show you um but i'm going to be putting this together pinching it together um and lining up these seams as tight as i can get them with tape temporarily started to go onto the edge butt it together and then use blue tape between the two and blue tape actually shrinks a little as you push it down so it pulls it super tight and actually kind of pulls up on the veneer so after i get all of these lines done i will run run one the entire length of the piece so we go back in here lay the piece down and we see that it lines up perfectly give it a little squeeze and put the tape on all the way down next step is iron on the front edge um and i'm just using a two inch wide iron on edge banding um you do that because when your seam or your top comes across it covers the seam um i'm not using real edge banding because i don't have 12 foot walnut boards so that's some of the challenges with working with extremely long pieces can you find the seam because i can't find the seam alright so i got my football veneer laid out and i ran a tape right down the center just to give an extra little bit of uh connection because next up i will take this whole thing roll it over and i will apply what they call heat lock glue heat lock glue is something that you put on both sides so i'll put it on the veneer and on the substrate and once they both dry i flip it over so that's both surfaces are mating and i run an iron over the entire thing so the iron uh produces the heat and it becomes kind of like a glue on edge banding uh with the iron same concept all right so the next step is to put this heat lock glue which is like an iron-on edge banding so i'm gonna put it on the veneer put it on the mdf they dry then we flip them together and iron it so this is the process i just take my veneer roller load it up with glue and go to town so i've got the uh veneer laid out and pinned down with some boards because this thing will curl up as it dries but we wait for it to dry do the mdf same thing and once they dry we put them together and iron them glue has dried on both substrate and veneer and i got it on top laid it out where i want it and the next process is going to be to start ironing down all of uh the veneer so we'll see how well that goes on this full panel so if you look at the ripples in the veneer and then the shiny spot that's where i've ironed it down and pressed with this piece of view hmw plastic uh but other than that it's going very well um i'm getting to one end working from the center out so that provides the wood room to move and stretch and do whatever it needs to do um i'm hoping to eliminate the live edge on the outside and just have a book match center line so it'll be pretty cool all right i finished veneering um now what i'm going to do is check for any voids anything like that that i need to repair and then edge span or edge trim all of this veneer right now i just have it with a little bit of a lip i'm going to take that off and hopefully it stays nice and clean and then a couple spots where my seam kind of pulled apart i'm going to try and fill those in with some spliced in live edge portion of the veneer i am running this edge cutter to trim the veneer it's kind of the process but essentially it gets it clean all the way there so that on the full length i've got the veneer trimmed with the edge flush i need to sand it all i've taken my timbermate wood filler and just kind of gone on any of the cracks or voids in the wood um and just kind of filled them in so uh down my seam on my sap wood filled that in i am going to let that dry for just a little bit more and then start sanding and we'll see the finished product i roughly sanded the panel and uh everything cleaned up well looks like we survived filling in all the cracks and everything um i'm going to just wipe it down and take a look at it it might just soak it up i don't know yeah it seems like it is at least until the rag gets soaked or something so so put the finish on and it looks awesome so this is coat number one let it dry overnight and scuff it with like 320 lightly and then come back and hit it again with one more coat and it'll be good to go looks like a slab you

Channel: James Wesley Furniture

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Length: 9min 13sec (553 seconds)

Published: Sat Nov 27 2021