How To Work With Wood Veneer

The backing holds the veneer together and prevents cracking.
How to work with wood veneer. With a little elbow grease the veneer came off one splinter at a time and then there was a lot of sanding involved to cut down that chunky adhesive. There are a few types of wood veneers available and each serves a purpose. Another option is to chip off the veneer with a putty knife like we did on this buffet.
Then quickly move on to applying veneer glue to the face side of the panel. Veneer is attached to the substrate with wood glue. PVA glue contact adhesive and hide glue will all work.
When working with veneer you will need to cut it and join the edges very much the same way you would with solid wood. Veneering is no different. Plywood is most commonly used as the substrate because it is dimensionally stable meaning that it does not expand and contract much with changes in temperature or humidity.
With the furniture Ive had experience with in the past the veneer has been glued to solid wood or plywood. When I was done removing the veneer and sanded the sides the table looked amazing already but the wood was a circus of different colors. But in some cases this would be less work than actually replacing the wood.
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Center the selected pattern section over the substrate panel and apply the contact cement following the manufacturers instructions to both the veneer and the substrate. A veneer hammer which is really more of a stiff blunt metal scraper attached to a long handle is used to smooth out the veneer on the substrate and to squeegee out excess amounts of. Or sometimes you can just paint over the wood underneath the veneer once its removed.