Hammer Veneering

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Q. What type of glue do you use?
A. I use the dry ground hide glue from Olde Mill Cabinet Shoppe. I don't know the gram strength.

Q. What type of veneer hammer are you using?
A. I'm using a homemade veneer hammer, that is made from scrap oak with a UHMW "Blade). This UHMW blade glides easily and nothing sticks to it.

Q. What type of veneer are you using?
A. I think you are referring to the anigre crotch.

Q. Where you do buy your veneer?
A. Constantine's, Certainly Wood, and Flamingo

Q. Why are you using pine as a substrate here and mahogany elsewhere?
A. The original clock had a lower front door made with battened ends. You could clearly see the effects of shrinkage in the photo of it. As you would expect the field had shrunk, causing damage to the inlay and veneers. This led me to believe that the panel must have been made from pine, since mahogany probably would not shrunk so much. To avoid the same problem, but maintain an accurate appearance I made the field panel from narrow strips of pine, glue together so as to have the grain in as nearly a quarter sawn orientation as possible. I then covered this with white pine veneer. The result is a very stable panel that is nearly indistinguishable from solid wood.
   
For more discussion about this clock see Rob Millards posting on the SAPFM Forum. Click here!

Resource Notes:

Hide Glue Supplier:
Old Mill Cabinet Shoppe
Item: Hide Glue

Veneering & Veneer Hammers
Books :
Wide variety of topics including hammer veneering and making a veneer hammer:
Tage Frid Teaches Woodworking: Books 1 & 2

This book contains an excerpt from Tage Frid's Teaches Woodworking.
FWW on Marquetry and Veneer

Ultra High Molecular Weight Polyethylene (UHMW) Suppliers:
Machinist-Materials
Item:UHMW.

WoodCrafter
Item: 3lb. assortment pack of UHMW

Veneer Suppliers:
Certainly Wood
Item: Anigre crotch.
Flamingo
Constantine's

 

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