Fred Voorhees
11-07-2014, 11:34 AM
I am attaching three pics of a drawer that would represent, I think, three others besides the one in the photo. My insurance rep came to my home two weeks ago asking if I could do a little magic on the drawers. As you can see in the photos, the drawers are from an old dresser and the veneered face is chipped around the edges. He first was curious if I could simply veneer the entire face. I told him that it would be a bear to get the old veneer off to do that and besides, it would be almost impossible to find veneer like that to match the rest of the dresser. I told him maybe what I could do was to machine a rabbit into the edge all around the face of the drawers, going only as deep into the field as needed to eliminate the deepest chip. I only have so much depth to work with as far as going into the substrate. I can do a quarter inch at the most. The substrate looks like true wood and not ply. I have a rabbiting bit set that is practically new, so the cutters would be sharp. I am just concerned about doing further damage to the face than is already there. Mostly concerned with doing more chipping. Is this a concern I should have? I can climb cut the corners that I normally route "off of" to try to prevent any chipping at the corners. Other than that, not sure what else to do and honestly, I have not worked with veneer all that much to understand much about it. I am thinking of a roughly 1/4 x 1/4 inch rabbit and gluing walnut strips in and sanding flush, however the one measurement will be determined by the depth of chipping into the field of the face. Thoughts?
I have rubbed some mineral spirits onto the face of this drawer to show its detail better.
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I also plan on trying to re-glue some of the dovetail joints. Not sure how that is going to go since I do not wish to take them completely apart and I am afraid that old glue within them will prevent any real new glue strength once cured.
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I have rubbed some mineral spirits onto the face of this drawer to show its detail better.
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I also plan on trying to re-glue some of the dovetail joints. Not sure how that is going to go since I do not wish to take them completely apart and I am afraid that old glue within them will prevent any real new glue strength once cured.
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