Help, my veneer went burly on me!

I’ve had good luck misting with water that has a little glycerin in it. You can buy it at an drugstore, and it seems to help the wood fibers relax. I generally add about 2 ounces to my 16 oz spray bottle. I then lightly moisten the veneer and stack it between plywood and weight with concrete blocks. This usually works pretty well.

-- Robert from Raymond, MS. "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is therefore not a practice, but a habit." - Aristotle

using a humidifier in the room where you store it helps too

-- making sawdust....

Make sure you sandwich the veneer between absorbent paper towels when you are pressing them flat. Then change the paper towels every so often

-- No piece is cut too short. It was meant for a smaller project.

you can buy comercial flateners at woodcraft or rockler. Also there are different formulas out on the internet. A good place to start would be joewoodworker.com. I use commercial flatteners from woodcraft. spray it down and press in between 2 sheets of mdf lined with either newspaper or papertowels to absorb the moisture. keep changing the paper until all moisture is gone and the veneer will be pretty flexible. Just remember to always keep veneer stored flat and between 2 sheets of mdf. this helps to keep in flat and protect it.
don’t try the steam iron. it will work for a few minutes, but when it begins to come back to room temperature it might check and crack even more.

-- Joey, Magee, Ms http://woodnwaresms.com