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22nd October 2014, 08:42 AM #1Senior Member
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Resawn veneer/hammer vneering thickness?
Hey all, after having done a huge amount of reading about it on lots of other forums as well as here, i'm just wondering if anyone can tell me what the 'best' veneer thickness to use is when you're doing hammer veneering with hot hide glue?
Would 1mm thick resawn stuff be too thin for it?
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22nd October 2014, 07:06 PM #2
1mm would be fine . I have mostly done it with .6mm sliced veneer with a hammer and hide glue , any thicker stuff Ive re sawn myself has usually been clamped with cauls .
I have wondered what would have been the tecnique used in the old days with the thicker sawn veneers and a hammer. When your laying .6mm you put the glue down then the veneer and you can re heat and squeeze out the excess glue , there are some tricks to getting this to work well , one is using glue as a lube on top of the veneer , the other is glue sizing both sides of the the veneer and the ground your gluing to and letting it dry first. The second makes a huge difference.
When you heat and squeeze glue out from the .6 you can see a wave shape in the veneer that is formed by the glue ahead of the hammer, when it gets to the edge of the board , out comes the glue.
With something 1.5 to 2 mm I do wonder how the re heating would go and how the squeezing out of excess would look. probably just no wave effect to be seen . And the excess would still come out the sides.
Rob