I am working with crotch mahogany veneer for some door and drawer fronts. The veneer was first flattened using veneer softener, then glued to a backing veneer to make it more manageable, and finally glued to a curved door that was made up of bending plywood. I used Unibond 800 for all the glue-ups. Somewhere between construction and finishing (the doors sat for about 8 months before I started on the finishing), the veneer started to develop small lateral cracks across the grain – see photo. Is this to be expected with crotch veneer, or did I screw up somewhere?
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Wild Grain
Sounds like you know what you're doing and it's difficult to label this a technique or materials issue. Everything can be right during proceedures and crotch veneer doesn't play fair. That's some wild grain there and I'd blame mother nature not yourself.
Have you ever tried working with hide glue. At least when something goes wrong with a veneer job when using hide glue you have a chance to still work it out regardless of having completed the glue up.
SA
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