I've finally perfected my technique for making 1/16" quartersawn oak
veneer, but now I need some advice on gluing it to the substrate. There
will be two pieces side by side, about 30" long, for shelves. The
substrate is 5/8" plywood.

I've made a veneer press, so I will be cold pressing the veneer to the
substrate. But because my veneer is much thicker than the store-bought
variety I'm not sure about the bect way to glue it. I'm thinking of
using the new Titebond cold press glue. Should I use veneer tape, or
with such thick veneer can I just spread the glue out, position the
veneer, and put in the press to dry?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Bob

On 8 Apr 2005 08:40:50 -0700, wrote:
I've finally perfected my technique for making 1/16" quartersawn oak
veneer,

Care to share that technique? I'd love to have some.

wrote:

Should I use veneer tape, or
with such thick veneer can I just spread the glue out, position the
veneer, and put in the press to dry?

I'd use tape since the purpose of tape is to align and hold the veneer
edges so you can glue them together before gluing all to whatever.

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I have questions, not answers.

1. How you makin' veneer?
2. How many 1/16th" slices do you get from some good figure before you
get to plain looking wood?

The reason I ask # 2 is I never seem to se a QS WO board that has even
similar pattern on each side and I'm mostly dealing w/ 4/4. Also, I
resawed a piece of 4/4 and the figure at the center of the board was
very different than at either face. In fact b y the time I sanded out
my saw marks you can hardly tell the two pieces are bookmatched. I
actually though I screwwed up and reversed onpiece but realized it was
just that the patter changed so quickly.