Wood Furniture Veneer Repair Lifting Edges And Bubbles
Wood Furniture Veneer Repair Lifting Edges And Bubbles A piece of veneered furniture that develops a lifting edge or a soft bubble in the surface presents one of the more common and most fixable problems in home furniture care. Yet it is also one of the problems most frequently made worse by well-meaning intervention. The thin layer of decorative wood that gives a sideboard its figured walnut face or a chest its rosewood crossbanding is only between 0.5 and 2 millimeters thick on antique pieces and as thin as 0.25 millimeters on modern factory work. The Furniture Society estimates that veneer accounts for the visible surface of more than 70 percent of medium and high quality furniture sold in North America, which means that learning to repair lifting edges and bubbles is a skill that pays for itself many times over. What causes veneer to lift in the first place? When is a bubble a sign of something serious underneath? Why do so many repair attempts fail within a year? This ...
