Removing & Cleaning Excess Wood Veneer

Video Transcript

"Here's a drawer that's from the same piece. It's really severe. So much of the veneer's missing, there's no way we can put a patch on this. So, there's so little remaining, what we're going to do is, we're going to cut this off, clean the surface and apply a whole new face to this drawer. How we want to start with is a sharp chisel like we have here. We're going to work our way underneath that veneer. Just keep working along the bottom surface, prying that old veneer off. It's always helpful to keep some of these small pieces. Like on our drawer over here, if that would've been big enough we would have used this same veneer to repair it with. What that does, it keeps the color, the patina all the same and you're using pretty much the same kind of wood so when you refinish it, it kind of blends in a little better. But these pieces are so small we might want to discard them. Once we get all these pieces removed, we want to clean the surface. Now we can scrape it clean but a quicker way it take an orbital sander with about a hundred grit paper on it and just sand it. In this step you want to be sure to hold the sander flat. You don't want any dips or bumps in the surface. The smoother and flatter it is, the better the veneer's going to look. So now we're getting all prepared to apply our veneer."