Furniture, Wood and Cabinetry Finishing - What to do with venerr

Doityourself.com community forum was created to provide answers to all questions related to home improvement and home repair. Doityourself community can help you find information about how-to topics on small fixes to large remodeling projects. With comprehensive how-to content and expertly moderated community forums DoItYourself.com makes it easy to tackle even the most complex home improvement projects.



PDA

View Full Version : What to do with venerr

RIKIL
06-06-09, 05:40 PM
I have an old, antique chest. It is a Roos chest, I saw one on ebay a while ago for ~$400. The chest has paint on it (I am removing this) and top of the chest is covered in veneer (which is also painted). The venerr has a few small cracks near the edge, they aren't that bad but you can certainly see where the small pieces have cracked off.

I am wondering what I should do with this? Do I leave it as it and just continue restoring this or do I take the veneer off and replace it? Or do I put a new layer of veneer over the top of the existing veneer (I have no idea how hard the existing veneer may be to take off)?

While I have no plans to sell this I always like to keep things in the best shape possible and I would rather not do anything to reduce the value of the chest.

Can any wood workers out there give me some advice?

Thanks.

George
06-09-09, 05:56 AM
Leave it as-is.

Replacing or covering the existing veneer will greatly reduce the value.