Help with laminates! Please! (Wood Novice)

Looks like veneer. Might be worth several hundred dollars
but a lot depends on what species and how much
you have. Some veneers are costly, others not so much.

-- http://lawoodworking.com

If you plan on doing woodworking that would call for laminate / veneer, I would think that it would be worth the price. There is a (steep) learning curve for working with veneer.

-- Jesse, Saint Louis, Missouri

Veneering is not that hard really, but it does usually
involve investing time and/or money in building and/or
buying a press.

-- http://lawoodworking.com

50€ is cheap for that quantity of wood veneer (thanks Loren) but i just wonder what i would do with it as there is so much of it.

I am a novice so some advice on what to look up would be good all i keep thinking abouts is chessboards or very ornate furniture.

what kind of press? Are they expensvie to buy or make? sorry if I am acting a little dumb here but this is all new to me.

Thanks in advance

Anthony

-- Englishman in Finland I am guessing that i am Finglish.

http://www.veneersupplies.com/

Here ya go.

thanks waho..
Just breaking the news to my wife that i found enough veneer to make a chess board factory…

Ajm

-- Englishman in Finland I am guessing that i am Finglish.

You can get into vacuum veneering for a couple hundred
bucks. That’s the easiest way to get started these
days. Real presses can be bought but take up a lot
of room and are not cheap. You can build a press
from press screws and wood, but in Finland you may
find the press screws costly due to import duties
and so forth.

-- http://lawoodworking.com

You don’t need a press or a vacuum bag.
For centuries fine furniture has been veneered with hot hide glue and a veneer hammer. The cost is the price of the glue and something to heat it in. You can make a hammer.
It’s still the best way to veneer and the only one I know of that allows you to veneer a piece of furniture after assembly.
Do an internet search for “Hammer veneering” there’s lots of good stuff out there.

-- Paul M ..............If God wanted us to have fiberglass boats he would have given us fiberglass trees. http://prmdesigns.com/

Thank you for the advice…. I some how triggered off the sticky keys alarm reading the post earlier. Typing is now very hard I will look up things on google.
But in al honesty I think I wil buy it and put it in to storage until i find some simple projects to start with.
Thanks for all of the advice.
Anthony

-- Englishman in Finland I am guessing that i am Finglish.

Is veneer used in Marquetry as well?

Could buy it and use it for inlay on projects as well possibly.

-- Steve

thanks… i think i will busy hauling that wednesday next week

-- Englishman in Finland I am guessing that i am Finglish.