Koala-Man
6th February 2021, 11:27 AM
Hi all,
My daughter has a cocktail cabinet with veneered particleboard doors. According to her it is a "mid-century classic".
This is the daughter who, at the age of 7, asked me to make a table for her teddy bears out of offcuts from a deck I'd just finished building. I gave her a little lecture about how you should always "measure twice, cut once", then immediately made a cutting mistake. She looked up at me and said, deadpan, "Daddy shouldn't that be 'measure thrice, cut twice?'". She later majored in linguistics.
Anyway, the particleboard has split and crumbled where the screws for the hinges go into the top and bottom edges.
Image 1 shows the veneer which is bent but not broken.
Images 2 and 3 show how the top corner is damaged
Image 4 shows the bottom corner, which is splitting but not as badly as the top corner.
So what are my options? Soak the damaged parts is some sort of glue then clamp to the right thickness? Cut out the disintegrated part and slot something else in?
I am in your expert hands.
Thanks in advance.
My daughter has a cocktail cabinet with veneered particleboard doors. According to her it is a "mid-century classic".
This is the daughter who, at the age of 7, asked me to make a table for her teddy bears out of offcuts from a deck I'd just finished building. I gave her a little lecture about how you should always "measure twice, cut once", then immediately made a cutting mistake. She looked up at me and said, deadpan, "Daddy shouldn't that be 'measure thrice, cut twice?'". She later majored in linguistics.
Anyway, the particleboard has split and crumbled where the screws for the hinges go into the top and bottom edges.
Image 1 shows the veneer which is bent but not broken.
Images 2 and 3 show how the top corner is damaged
Image 4 shows the bottom corner, which is splitting but not as badly as the top corner.
So what are my options? Soak the damaged parts is some sort of glue then clamp to the right thickness? Cut out the disintegrated part and slot something else in?
I am in your expert hands.
Thanks in advance.