Thread: Resawn veneer/hammer vneering thickness?

1mm would be fine . I have mostly done it with .6mm sliced veneer with a hammer and hide glue , any thicker stuff Ive re sawn myself has usually been clamped with cauls .

I have wondered what would have been the tecnique used in the old days with the thicker sawn veneers and a hammer. When your laying .6mm you put the glue down then the veneer and you can re heat and squeeze out the excess glue , there are some tricks to getting this to work well , one is using glue as a lube on top of the veneer , the other is glue sizing both sides of the the veneer and the ground your gluing to and letting it dry first. The second makes a huge difference.

When you heat and squeeze glue out from the .6 you can see a wave shape in the veneer that is formed by the glue ahead of the hammer, when it gets to the edge of the board , out comes the glue.
With something 1.5 to 2 mm I do wonder how the re heating would go and how the squeezing out of excess would look. probably just no wave effect to be seen . And the excess would still come out the sides.

Rob