Wood Veneer Table Top Repair

However broken chipped and cracked wood veneer can be repaired with the right tools and a little knowledge.

Wood veneer table top repair.

Veneer repair is an easy job for woodworkers of almost any skill level according to san francisco furniture repair and refinishing wizard jim kull. The layer between the tabletop and the finish veneer has come unglued too. A very thin layer of hardwood veneer is often glued over a less expensive piece of wood furniture. You can rejuvenate an old wooden table by resurfacing the table top with veneer or laminate sheeting.

The only way to repair it is to reverse the process by adding more glue with similar properties as the original glue. This sample was from the white sewing company but the quartersawn white oak top was beyond repair. In this article we ll discuss basic techniques to repair veneer on your wooden furniture for any at home furniture refinishing or restoration project. Veneer is also easily damaged from the surface and old veneers are often cracked buckled or broken with chips or entire pieces missing.

Veneer is thin hardwood laminated to the surface of a table. In this video i restore the finish and repair some broken and chipped out veneer on a vintage cocktail cabinet which has a hinged top section mirrors and a. Back in the day salesmen would bring these scale models on sales calls. The piece was an old salesman sample of a sewing table.

A veneer is a thin sheet of wood covering an underlayment that s commonly used in many pieces of commercially produced furniture today. Because it s so thin it can be easily damaged in a move or as a result of an accident. The process is relatively simple. A recent restoration job required that i replace the badly damaged oak veneer on the top of an antique table.

Chipped veneer is only part of the damage to this table edge. When the glue bond fails bubbles can form on the surface of the wood veneer. How to resurface a wood table with wood veneer or laminate.