Veneer Raised Panel Door

Re: Veneer Raised Panel Door

Barry Irby

>Industry does this. I have seen Raised panel doors with veneer vacuum "formed" onto them. The panels did not have a distinct offset or lift around the panel. I ahve no experinece with Vacuum Veneering, so I don't know if you can do this at home.

I also saw a table top made of something like MDF that had book matched oak veneer on it. The edges had been rounded over to about a 1" radius. (the whole edge of the top was rounded and it was aobut 3/4" thick) The veneer had been formed to it all the way around. The impresive part was that the corners were rounded as if they were a quarter of a sphere or hemisphere and the veneer was molded to them. (sort of three dimentional rather than two dimentional as on the ends and edges.)

While these were impressive I have also seen a lot of cheap cabinets with printed wood grain on "contact" paper done the same way. The give away was that the doors were prcisely identlcal. While the table top I mentioned above was real wood veneer (or it fooled me for five minutes), it was a cheap table.

I think the goal here would be to do this and avoid looking like a copy of cheap imitations.

If I had some spectacular veneer, I might make a raised panel of the same wood and veneer the surface fo the raised part, sort of picture framing it with the straight grained stuff. Or you could make panels of MDF and picture frame them with wood of your choice, Raise the panels and apply the veneer to the MDF.

Re: Veneer Raised Panel Door

Doug in Denver

>I read soemthing on doing this just yesterday in the veneering forum at the vacupress site. Go there and look in the forum a few days or maybe weeks back. I got the impression you need a bit of skill to to it - massaging the veneeer through the vacuum bag. .

Re: Veneer Raised Panel Door

Steve Jenkins, McKinney, TX.

>When i use veneer for a raised panel door I first edgeband the mdf with solid stock sized so the joint is about 1/32 inside the line of the raised portion. Then I veneer both faces, then run it past the shaper to raise it. This gives you a solid edge and looks good with no seam showing between the veneer and solid stock.

Steve

Re: Veneer Raised Panel Door

Curt Harms

>Hello Doug

I think our builder grade kitchen cabinets are veneered, I haven't gotten a chance to cut a panel up to know for sure. The panels are shaped like raised panels but there's NO hint of end grain, it all looks like face grain. It could also be printed paper I suppose.

Curt

Re: Veneer Raised Panel Door

Charles Sharp

>I saw a door where the panel was a piece of walnut with a curly maple veneer in the center of the raised panel, it looked great. The guy glued the veneer to the panel, after it was dry he raised the panel on the router table.