I finished a little project today. Hopefully I can get back to building my router soon.

Awesome work! What are the materials used? (I'm limited in the fine woodworking area, pine and ply are my commonly used wood materials)

Very nice work. Makes the one I made myself, look like it's built by "Piss Poor Pine Design Inc". How many hours work in it?

Regards Terry.....

It's flame birch veneer on mdf. Most of the time was spent veneering the mdf in my vacuum bag. Probably around 40 hours or so.

That's beautiful work Gerry.

It's flame birch veneer on mdf. Most of the time was spent veneering the mdf in my vacuum bag. Probably around 40 hours or so.
Hi,

May I ask you what is this "flame birch veneer on mdf"? Thank you for your time and help.

Zoltan

Beautiful peace of furniture. Would you mind explaining the process.

Thanks !

Hi,

May I ask you what is this "flame birch veneer on mdf"? Thank you for your time and help.

Zoltan

It's a figured birch veneer, known as "flame birch" for the figure. It's glued to an mdf substrate using a vacuum press.

Beautiful peace of furniture. Would you mind explaining the process.

Thanks !

The entire piece is made up of veneered 3/4" mdf. the columns on the sides are just 3 mitered pieces, screwed to wood blocks behind the moldings. The flat mouldings are 1/2" MDF with a 1/2" X 1/2" piece of hardwood glued to the edge, which I beveled. The crown was the tricky part. I CNC'd the crown out of MDF. I then CNC'd a female piece to match. Then I dampened the veneer to make it more flexible, and glued it to the crown using the female form.

Absolutely beautiful. You do some impressive work.

I have never seen birch look so good. I would have thought it was some kind of quilted maple.

Did you need to use cauls on the crown molding inside the vacuum bag? I have never tried bags.

(Edit: You already aswered my quiestion. I just noticed the "female piece to match". I gather this was the caul)

Steve

Thanks. I didn't use a bag on the crown, just used clamps with a female form.

ger21...nice looking work!

I haven't used veneer since a high school project.....did you use contact cement? Is that "black granite"?

All my work is mostly in quartersawn white oak and American walnut.

No contact cement. I used Titebond cold press veneer glue. And yes, it's black granite.

Where is the best place to order the veneer sheets at a good price? I wanted to do the same for the top of a desk I'm building for my son. All of the desk will be painted read but I want to apply veneer to the top and edges of the mdf on top. Everywhere I look its so expensive.

Thanks!

Warren

Ebay is probably the cheapest. I got what was used here from Certainly Wood. http://www.certainlywood.com

I did look on ebay last night and saw alot of veneer sheets but they came in smaller pieces. I need to do some reseach on applying veneer but if I want to do the top of a desk, shoudn't I get one solid piece for the top instead of trying to connect multiple pieces together? Or do most people do this?

Thanks!

If it's the top of the desk, The easiest way is to use a phenolic backed veneer and contact cement. check out www.oakwoodveneer.com for that. Don't use contact cement with unbacked or paperbacked veneer. You'll get bubbles or worse.

Hey Gerry!
Excellent craftsmanship!

Thanks John. :)

Gerry, nice! what finish have you used?

It's an oil finish, called Velvit Oil. http://www.velvitproducts.com/

Stunning work Gerry.

Jason

Hey Gerry, I have question for you. Ok I may have two ro three.

Have you ever seen the veneer softner that makes veener extremely pliable? If so, do you know if it is water based or solvent. I have an experiment I want to do using my baggins system and some cauls or male/female like you describe, but I want to use a real slow drying epoxy resin and completely penetrate the veneer with the epoxy while being held in place and on the male form???Do you have any idea of how to get the veneer pliable with some sort of solvent type material?

Mike