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Veneer screwup/recovery
Made a couple of mistakes when prepping some Oak veneer for the current build.
Resulted in curly pieces that I hit with some softener and baby-sat them until flat.
Unfortunately, the curling returned when I painted them with Heat Lock, but I figured
that I could flatten them again using a lot of heat and pressure.
Long story short, I decided to strip the veneer and reapply fresh pieces.
I managed to get all the old veneer off using a heat gun and putty knife, but nothing I can
find will remove/flatten the old Heat Lock glue residue.
Tried machine sanding with 80 grit - no improvement. Heat gun works a little, but not really good enough.
Any tips for this?
Resulted in curly pieces that I hit with some softener and baby-sat them until flat.
Unfortunately, the curling returned when I painted them with Heat Lock, but I figured
that I could flatten them again using a lot of heat and pressure.
Long story short, I decided to strip the veneer and reapply fresh pieces.
I managed to get all the old veneer off using a heat gun and putty knife, but nothing I can
find will remove/flatten the old Heat Lock glue residue.
Tried machine sanding with 80 grit - no improvement. Heat gun works a little, but not really good enough.
Any tips for this?
But Chahly - Stahkist don't want speakers that look good, Stahkist wants speakers that sound good!
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the heat gun would soften it up, but only in small area, and even then the glue was very sticky.
I bought an oscillating tool today for this purpose, but it was somehow not effective at high speed.
Later I found out how to slow it down, and found that then the cutoff tool was pretty effective at scraping off
the heatlock glue.
Thanks anyways!
I couldn't get a good picture of the puckered oak veneer, but I had to decide that the bumpiness was
way more than 10 mil, so I'd never be able to sand them out flat, so I could have lived with
the imperfection or dived into repair.
A corollary of the problem was that it proved that reactivating Heat Lock after
3 or 4 days is basically impossible.
The oscillating tool worked pretty good (though not perfect) in the end.
I think I'm good to go to glue a new layer on top.
Thanks for the tip.
Hmmm, I do have a hand power planer around. That should work also...