Thread: Parker Sideboard - Veneer / Chipboard Nightmare

you will be hard pressed to repair it i think, are you going to paint it ? if so i would fiberglass it .

Option 1 will be the least amount of work, assuming you can find a matching veneer (which will be the hard part!).

Challenge #1 is matching the veneer.
Maybe not critical if you have the skills to tint and colour a veneer with a close enough grain to match to the original. Otherwise a likely show stopper.

Your option #2 is possibly the easiest from a doable perspective.
However, I can't offer much in respect to stabilising the "weatbix" substrate. In principle something like a thin cynoacrylic glue should do the trick -- but you will need lots
once stabilised, the panel could be shaved back to something a little less than the original thickness and then brought back to final thickness with veneer


I don't know how the Parker units were assembled, so can't advise on removing and rebuilding the end panel.

I do not think you can do much with a chipboard panel, once it goes weat-bix, that is pretty much end of their service.
My suggestion:

• Find a similar furniture in poor condition but with a good side panel and replace the side with that. It keeps the integrity.Lots of looking and searching for the right piece.

• or Spend a few hundred on a well kept furniture and spend your energy looking after that one. It would give you more enjoyment I think. Restoring weat-bix is not much fun.

Show us the restored furniture and what you learned. I would be very interested.
I have a beautiful 50's veneered chipboard side board, I love it. An Italian furniture maker made it, with exceptional skills. But I picked it up for $100, it's not fashionable now-days. Lucky me.
Have fun with it.
cheers

Thanks for all your input ... it's nice to hear be re-assured that I haven't missed any obvious and simple approaches to a a tricky problem ... will I proceed ? Which way will I go ? I'll let you know.

thanks again !