I am building a small jewelry cabinet with 2 doors about 7 X 21 ” I have just recently bought a band saw large enough to resaw wood for the doors. I am using walnut for the base wood and have some nice marbled walnut I would like to resaw for bookmatched panels. I have never done any veneering before and am not planning to get real “fancy” with it. I plan to resaw the wood to 1/8″ or so. The subwood will also be walnut. Will it be necessary to glue a covering wood to both sides of the doors to prevent warping? What type glue would to be best for this project? I have built several of these cabinets before from solid walnut and they really turn out well. They are mounted on Queen Ann legs and have 9 drawers behind the doors.
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Mark,
Yes, you absolutely will need to back up your panels with a veneer as thick as what you glue to the front. Typically, the "back" of a panel uses a less figured variety than the front as a cost saving. That may not be a consideration in your case. If you don't balance your construction, the panels will warp.
Use a veneer press or a vacuum bag for gluing. I recommend a PVA glue white or yellow. Titebond is a popular choice. Also, Gorilla glue, a polyurethane glue which has a long open time is very nice to use for such a project. It doesn't stain the wood, sands well and has an invisible glue line when finished.
Apply either with a notched applicator to spread a metered amount over the surfaces to minimize squeeze-out. Practice with scraps first. A few tiny beads at the edges should be all the glue that squezzes out under pressure.
Rich
Mark,
It sounds like you're making slab doors, so I'll go on that assumption for now. If you're planning a 3/4" slab door, then I'd suggest slicing 1/8" veneers of both your marbled walnut and regular walnut and glue them to a 1/2" MDF substrate. In preparation for this, you could edge-band the MDF with 1/8" plain walnut first, then apply the veneers to the sides so the edge-banding wouldn't show. Another approach is to make the edge-banding thin enough (1/16") that you can apply it after veneering and it wouldn't be visible.
If my description doesn't make sense, let me know and I'll try again.
Regards,
Bill Arnold - Custom Woodcrafting
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