Furniture, Wood and Cabinetry Finishing - Just sanded thru veneer
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yumseyo
03-19-07, 03:16 PM
Help please. I am stripping a bathroom vanity and have just sanded thru the veneer on a piece of oak plywood. The sandthru almost looks like a knot in the wood but when I wet it to see what it may look like finished, it looks like particle board. I was thinking I might buy some oak veneer with out the backing and glue it on but I was not sure how it may look...and was not sure what kind of glue to use..
clockdaddy
03-19-07, 08:05 PM
yumseyo,
I wish I could tell you that there is an easy fix for what has happened, but there isn't. It could, however, be worse!. Not knowing where the veneer is off from (i.e. side, front,or door) it makes it difficult to give just one answer. If the area is on the side, it's pretty easy to cut a quarter inch thick sheet to the dimensions of the side attach it and proceed to finish it. It would be necessary, if there isn't a lip on the front frame to build out the edge of the frame with a strip of oak to hide the plywood. After all, that's what they did to begin with.
I doubt that it is the front frame because most front frames are solid in order to be able to hold the doors and screws. Because of this, I'm going to skip the front frame unless you come back and acknowledge it is the front.
So let's look at the doors. Again, the frame of the doors are generally solid if there is a raised or inserted panel. If the door is flat, there's where there will be veneer laminates. If the door is flat, it'd be a lot simpler in you simply had another one made. If it's the panel, then there are two choices. Tear the door apart and put in another panel (and the door will be destroyed in the process!!) or veneer the front of the panel.
For a novice, the easiest type of veneer to put on is veneer with a hot glue backing. The veneer is cut roughly to the size of the panel (a little larger) and position properly on the panel. To this you apply a thin towel or a few layers of t-shirt material. With this all laid out on the panel, a very warm (not hot!!) iron is slowly moved over the surface to melt the glue backing allowing it to stick to the original wood. Unless it's just a door, I wouldn't recommend attempting to veneer anything larger. The larger the surface the more problems come out to bite you.
Frankly, by the time you start buying oak plywood, or an oak door, or even the glue backed oak veneer, you might want to check and see what the cost of replacing the vanity will be. You might be surprised what you can get an unfinished vanity for. The costs really isn't too bad and it sure will save a lot of trouble.
Good luck, Let us know how it works out,
CD
I wish I could tell you that there is an easy fix for what has happened, but there isn't. It could, however, be worse!. Not knowing where the veneer is off from (i.e. side, front,or door) it makes it difficult to give just one answer. If the area is on the side, it's pretty easy to cut a quarter inch thick sheet to the dimensions of the side attach it and proceed to finish it. It would be necessary, if there isn't a lip on the front frame to build out the edge of the frame with a strip of oak to hide the plywood. After all, that's what they did to begin with.
I doubt that it is the front frame because most front frames are solid in order to be able to hold the doors and screws. Because of this, I'm going to skip the front frame unless you come back and acknowledge it is the front.
So let's look at the doors. Again, the frame of the doors are generally solid if there is a raised or inserted panel. If the door is flat, there's where there will be veneer laminates. If the door is flat, it'd be a lot simpler in you simply had another one made. If it's the panel, then there are two choices. Tear the door apart and put in another panel (and the door will be destroyed in the process!!) or veneer the front of the panel.
For a novice, the easiest type of veneer to put on is veneer with a hot glue backing. The veneer is cut roughly to the size of the panel (a little larger) and position properly on the panel. To this you apply a thin towel or a few layers of t-shirt material. With this all laid out on the panel, a very warm (not hot!!) iron is slowly moved over the surface to melt the glue backing allowing it to stick to the original wood. Unless it's just a door, I wouldn't recommend attempting to veneer anything larger. The larger the surface the more problems come out to bite you.
Frankly, by the time you start buying oak plywood, or an oak door, or even the glue backed oak veneer, you might want to check and see what the cost of replacing the vanity will be. You might be surprised what you can get an unfinished vanity for. The costs really isn't too bad and it sure will save a lot of trouble.
Good luck, Let us know how it works out,
CD