Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Repairing A Peeling Veneer”.
About a year ago, I was driving down the road, and I spotted this chair in somebody’s trash. This bent lamination construction, I think, is just gorgeous, and this chair is in incredible condition. It only has one little problem, which is this lamination, that’s starting to peel off. On the back now I don’t to appear in this, but I kind of want it to stand out. I want to do something that when you look at it you know it’s been repaired and you have to think about it.
For a minute I mean there are ways that you could repair this, that somebody would look at it and never know, never know it was repaired. I could cut the lamination across the back here. It got at the bottom and peel it all off and glue new new stuff on the whole back of it and you would never know who’s repaired. But what I want to do is just do this part and I kind of want it to be like a patchwork.
So what I’ve done is I’ve picked up this iron-on edge banding? Usually, you would use this for when you’re working with plywood and you want to look like a solid board, but I’m gon na be using it just as a veneer on the back of this to kind of make it look both repaired, but also very nice. I started by tracing and cutting a circle. I wanted to do a shape that would be interesting and stand out. I thought a circle would be kind of neat you just cut through the veneer and then heal. It all feels all really easy. Then it was just a matter of cutting the iron-on veneer strips to fit perfectly with the circle that I cut again. They cut very easily and you iEARN event on this first move.
I noticed that I made a nasty burn spot in the finish on the back of the chair, so I’m moving forward you’ll see that I hired from the other direction every time so that I don’t ruin the finish. I thought it would be kind of neat to do this kind of like a racing stripe, then in the end, it actually reminds me a lot of like Saturn or something I’m gon na do another project that aligned with that in mind. That’S white birch or something in cherry veneer.
I think depending it flush was pretty easy. I mean you just carefully cut it. That’S that’s a.
I did a first pass just to cut off the excess and then I went back and you know, did a closer pass. More carefully so that I could get it flush with the very edge the glue was sticking out badly on this side. So I had to come back and very carefully just cut the glue, the studio, I’m sanding, to get it all smoothed out that give that clean and came back with a higher grit sandpaper to get it even smoother, careful not to ruin the finish around it. The middle layer of boiled linseed oil – I chose that because that’s what I had sitting on my shelf, no reason other than that after the boiled: linseed oil, I’m using polycrylic satin finish and I put on a layer, let it dry and then gave that a quick Sanding with 220 vacuumed it up and then put on another layer, and I noticed you could see it around the edges. You could tell that it had a different finish. So then I did the entire back of the chair with two quick layers of this polycrylic satin. So here’s the final result.
I love the way it turned out now. I know this isn’t for everybody. Some people are watching this and probably cringing so hard, because I could have gone back to a flat veneer. But again you know, like I said earlier, that’s not what I wanted.
I wanted something that that just screamed that it was a repair but still looked good. I don’t know just got my personal touch now. Anybody who looks at this chair is gon na know. It’S been worked on and I like it now, one of the cool parts is that if I ever decide don’t like it, I can actually appeal these veneers off kind of straight running across the bottom slap a flat veneer on it, and they can go back to Being boring, I like this way to see you next time you you .