Thread: De-lamination

I am in posession of my great grandfathers dining suite.

Sometime in the last 30 odd yeas, my dear old nanna fell to the charms of a door to door salesman selling this great new product that meant you would never have to polish your antique table again, laminex, and she actulally had this horrrific piece of woodgrain rubish struck to the table.


I have had it for a while now and could no longer stand this aboration on top of a beautiful antique table, so I peeled if off, very carefully.

It come off really well and to my surpise the surface underneath was nearly spotless (except for the glue, why nana, why ?).

Anyway there is a spot on the table about the size of a playing card where a paper thin section of the timber has de-laminated into a bubble.

I know just about bugger all about wood finishing, the only way I would think to fix it would be to gentlly slice down the grain with a razor blade and inject PVA glue under with a hyperdermic syringe, the place a weight on top, then fill ,finish etc.

Does anyone who actually knows what they are doing have any ideas.

When I can afford it, I will have it professionaly restored, but thats about 5 years away, and I want to continue to use it, as it has been by my family for goodnes knows how many years. It is a matching set and when she died about 5 years ago an antique dealer at the garage sale seen it and offered 2 grand (even with the laminex) he was told it was not for sale.

Regards

Simon