Edging-finishing benchtop, assistance please

[BobL]

You can purchase thin strip tassie oak veneer without the iron on glue backing. To glue these on the edge use standard PVA glue and hold them in place with masking tape. You'll be surprised at the holding strength until the glue sets. I generally leave overnight then do any trimming if necessary with a sharp craft or stanley knife. Your veneer doesn't need to be thick; 1-1.5mm is plenty.

Like this - these are 1.5 x 10 mm jarrah strips. Roughly pre-bent using and steamer but these are actually bent in 3D (Guitar top is curved in 2D).

Your curves are way bigger than these.

Excess trimmed with a block plane and then hand sanded. Fill any remaining cracks with cabinet makes wax of approx colour.

Final result looks like this.

[Evan Pavlidis]

Good one BobL

Evan