Veneering over mixed types of wood
Hi
I have this table made with plywood and solid red oak attached on the sides of plywood as a “thick(3/4”) veneer”.
long story short I don’t like the look of it so I am thinking about putting veneer on top of it all around. I am new to veneering. And I did some research and seems like veneers seems to not to correspond with certain types of wood, anyways it’s going to be a lot of question since this will be my first time. But here’s one.
One option came up on my mind is patching the whole table with 1/4” MDF to give a clean surface for the veneer to sit on. But that way the layers of plywood and red oak will be still inside. I’m not sure if this way would work or not since I’m guessing it will still move.
trying to get the most promising way with material limitation(table made with plywood and solid red oak is the material veneered on), what’s the best way to do it and I’d like to get some options.
thank you.
By the way I am thinking about using peel and stick veneer since I don’t have a space I can use any “intensely toxic matters”.
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I think you are going down a rabbit hole and delaying the inevitable. The advice given in your previous post was to start over again and I agree. Cut your losses, chalk it up to experience and build it with appropriate materials. We've all had to do it at some point in our past. Sometimes we can hide or disguise our mistakes, but this sounds like they will be too obvious.
Ill give you credit for the tenacity. Thats a real virtue being able and willing to stay the course and work to fix your mistakes.
However in some cases its just not worth it.
Especially when you started from such a bad place.
If your going to continue your really just experimenting. It sounds like a frankenstien project and whatever you do is going to be bad because your piling -F Tier materials together.
Bad+Bad=More bad.
I would apologize, refund the client, Take the L, and move on with life and a different project.
Offer to try again correctly if you really want.
Honestly it sounds so stressful to continue.
Buy some cheap "character" walnut. Itll cost less than what youve spent already.
Try again with that on your own. No client. enjoy the process of building with real materials and learning.
If it comes out good send a pic to the old client and they may buy it or give you another shot at something else.
Sometimes, you need to punt and start over. This is one of those times.
Hi All
Thank you for a very honest opinion. I do agree with "re-doing" this project.
Fortunately(?), client wanted the stain to be almost like Painted thick of a color and I did that and they liked it. So I ended up dint had to re do the whole thing. This was very unexpected outcome to me and turned out to be "lucky" outcome. It doesn't feel super satisfying considering how it all went. It was my first actual commission piece, I do know that there were a lot more things I should've and shouldn't have done from the beginning with this project. But all these struggles and comments definitely became a great lesson to be better going forward. Just wanted to say thank you for everybody who commented here.
Pics are welcome here. We can all learn without having to guess and you get better answers to questions and comments.