Kravchenko Audio - Speaker - Enclosure Veneering Part the Last

Well the hairy end, No not my hair. Top and Bottom panels are setup and glued up to be set into the vacuum bag and pressed into flat submission.
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[@johnnguyen6026]

Very nice

[@afifinasir4204]

so thats how you apply pressure. nicely done.

[@KravchenkoAudioPerth]

Thanks.

[@oconnaugh]

Holy crap. I spent 2 days coming up with a cool speaker shape and design and was wondering how to veneer it and this cat is building my speaker! I guess its not THAT odd a shape for an enclosure, but still.

[@KravchenkoAudioPerth]

Old dog learned new trick in 1994. Vacuum veneer press. No stinking cats required (joke I like cats).

[@erikcramer]

Where do you get such big vacuum bags?

[@KravchenkoAudioPerth]

www.veneersupplies.com/categories/Vacuum__Press__Items/Vacuum__Bags/

[@tanasemihai5002]

to much noise

[@KravchenkoAudioPerth]

Turn your volume down ! LOL quick fix.

[@odincoulombe706]

People this is how you do not veneer.

[@KravchenkoAudioPerth]

Ok. I'll ask. Why is this not the way to veneer? Actually the most appropriate question is how do you think veneer should be applied and set?

[@odincoulombe706]

First off you dont use tape to hold down the sheet.Natural wood non backed you use glue,paper backed you use contact cement.when gluing you put pressure on the piece until dry,contact cement you roll the piece and its done.You never learned from a master did you.... @@KravchenkoAudioPerth

[@KravchenkoAudioPerth]

@@@odincoulombe706 You certainly have opinions on proper veneering. They are interesting. I personally would v ever use contact cement for veneer. But that is indeed one way that can work decently. I'm not sure what you were looking at, but this is indeed wood backed veneer. So even within your stated concepts of veneering I'm following your advice. The vacuum bag I use along with the appropriate pump system puts very even pressure all over the piece of veneer that has been glued up. The pressure is quite substantial at 8 PSi or o.564kg/cm^2. It creates a really good flue bond to the substrate with no bubbles or pockets. And as far as I know has the greatest ability for even pressure that I have ever heard of. In fact if you draw to deep of a vauum you will break the pieces that you are clamping. I have broken quite a gew flat panels when I was first trying this in the early 1990's. As for learned from a master. I started in helping a master cabinetmaker, my father, when I was 7years old. He did both carpentry and cabinetmaking. He did not do a lot of veneering but I learned that at the hands of a Austrian gentleman whose shop I have had the privilege to have worked in. They were masters at veneering and I picked up a few tricks that I did not know before working there. As for my level of accomplishment I have pieces in some of the highest standard for workmanship institutions in the country. Our parliament hill (the place of our national government) has a few park benches of mine. Our Supreme Court building has a large black walnut conference table of mine and our national museum has a good quantity of architectural reproduction work of mine. They all think I know what I'm doing. As have countless other clients over the past 30 years that I have owned and operated a cabinet shop.

[@PSPluggin]

Beautiful work!