Hi,
What are your thoughts on using HeatLok glue on raw veneer?
I'm still wading these speaker boxes. I'm pretty good so far at small boxes, but I'm so tired of clamping with slippery PVA glue. it's way too easy to misalign the grains. It simply won't work on a large speaker cabinet. I'm waiting for my Urea glue to see how that works. Maybe it is more tacky.
I was thinking of using a vacuum bag from day 1 of trying to get this work. However, I'm slowly moving away from that idea. I get so much conflicting info. The positives seem to be that I can use high quality adhesives. I was also hoping that moving veneers would be partially / mostly solved in a bag. Other positives are that I could use veneer on other furniture projects. It's not an investment I'm worried about making long term if I can have some confidence that it will work for this contract work.
I ran across HeatLok glue w/ clothing iron. Seems like an interesting idea, but I don't want to end up using an adhesive that causes me problems in the future... these are high end speaker cabinets.
If you have experience with the glue, how has it held up long term?
I'm really trying to find reasons to use the bag method (complicated shapes, lots of future uses, etc). I'm having a hard time finding out what people WITH ACTUAL EXPERIENCE do versus armchair quarterbacks when it comes to using vacuum presses. Seems experts DO use vacuum presses with success, but it's hard to find details. I'm about to just go for it and learn by experimenting. Maybe when I'm an expert, I'll actual post good info
cheers,
PS:
I have tried using blue tape to locate the veneer panel on my small boxes (5" x 5" x 5" ish) with good luck keeping location. However, the pressing causes the tape to damage the wood surface when I remove it (it pulls off some of the veneer). Are other tapes better?