Thread: My year 10 table with marquetry top

hi Ben,

Your work looks good. My worries; if you stick a few heavy object for gluing the veneer will come up and frustrate you. I seen it many times. Gluing is as important as the rest. Approximately the pressure for veneering is 5kg per square cm. That is huge!!!! If your table say 500mm x 300mm, the pressure you need is around 50x30x5 = 7500 kg!!! No joke! For your table, - hard to see the size - but a clamp at every 10cm or as many you can fit on. The middle is the most important, that is where you start squeezing the glue out. Otherwise you trap the glue. PVA is not the best for this job. Research the glues, a lot more to it than poring it to the surface.
Without excellent gluing your efforts will be down the drain.
Still, well done, awesome effort and keep it up!!!