Hi Jon,
I have been following your post for a bit and they look beautiful. I have a couple of questions for you:
1.) I have had some luck with veneer using a vaccum press with a single piece of wood in it at a time. The problem with putting a full speaker cabinet in a vaccum press is that it would be crushed with the pressure of the press. I beleive it is somewhere to the effect of 10,000 pounds of pressure per square inch. That would even crush the heavy duty monsters you made unless the cavity of the cabinet was filled. My problem is that using only one piece of wood at a time limits the type of joint you can make on the cabinet. Pretty much you are stuck to using a mitre joint so that the two face veneers show. To make a cabinet that slants back as yours do requires some interesting angle for a mitre.
I have not had any luck with using clamps or contact cement with veneer. The issue that I run into is that the venner is "tacked" on like a cheap looking laminiate. The difference with the vaccuum press is that it has so much pressure the glue seaps into the substrate and veneer almost fusing the two together giving it that "real wood" look.
So my question, after that long winded explanation is, do you know of a way to have the veneer "fuse" to the wood. Could you explain the press that you are looking at building that is simialar to the one at Avalon? Sorry this post is so long but I do have one more question and then I promise I will leave you alone,
Could you explain how you created the front baffle angle cuts a little bit more?
Anyway, I think your doing a great job, keep up the good work.
I have been following your post for a bit and they look beautiful. I have a couple of questions for you:
1.) I have had some luck with veneer using a vaccum press with a single piece of wood in it at a time. The problem with putting a full speaker cabinet in a vaccum press is that it would be crushed with the pressure of the press. I beleive it is somewhere to the effect of 10,000 pounds of pressure per square inch. That would even crush the heavy duty monsters you made unless the cavity of the cabinet was filled. My problem is that using only one piece of wood at a time limits the type of joint you can make on the cabinet. Pretty much you are stuck to using a mitre joint so that the two face veneers show. To make a cabinet that slants back as yours do requires some interesting angle for a mitre.
I have not had any luck with using clamps or contact cement with veneer. The issue that I run into is that the venner is "tacked" on like a cheap looking laminiate. The difference with the vaccuum press is that it has so much pressure the glue seaps into the substrate and veneer almost fusing the two together giving it that "real wood" look.
So my question, after that long winded explanation is, do you know of a way to have the veneer "fuse" to the wood. Could you explain the press that you are looking at building that is simialar to the one at Avalon? Sorry this post is so long but I do have one more question and then I promise I will leave you alone,
Could you explain how you created the front baffle angle cuts a little bit more?
Anyway, I think your doing a great job, keep up the good work.
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