Hot Hide Glue Experimentation #3: Hammering Veneer
So I finally finished hammering the veneer to my project. Not sure what I was thinking when for my first veneer attempt I chose a project where the entire front surface has no right angles in the veneer plus a curved cutout. A curved surface on the interior of the frame was also quite a challenge. The first challenge was caused by the fact that the veneer is so thin. Because you basically saturate both sides of the veneer with hot glue before you hammer it down, the thin veneer had a tendency to curl a bit when it dried. Part of the problem is that because of the complexity of the angles of the front, I decided to allow the veneer to overhang the edges to be trimmed later. It was t...
