How to Make Wood Veneer Furniture Patch

Furniture serves many important, essential functions for people the world over. In the last few thousand years, chairs, beds, desks, and tables have provided places to sit, eat, talk, work, gather, or sleep. Many people will spend more than a third of their lives in, at, or on furniture. It comes as no surprise, then, that humans have a unique relationship with this group of items they spend so much time around. In some ways, furniture has become a reflection of personality. When choosing furniture for their homes or offices, people are known to concentrate on design, giving it equal or greater weight than function and stability. Many people pass furniture items down from one generation to the next, keeping the item as a family heirloom.

With so many people spending so much time on furniture, you should have no problem finding used chairs or other furniture items that are a few simple restoration steps away from looking practically brand new. In this free woodworking video, you will learn how to patch wood veneer of furniture. Our woodworking expert will tell you how to match the type of wood as well as the wood grain when you are creating a wood furniture patch. He will also demonstrate how to apply the patch so that no one will notice that the furniture was ever damaged in the first place.

"Today we are going to talk about patching veneer. Veneer is very thin wood that?s laid over another kind of wood. To give the appearance of solid wood. In this case we are looking at walnut. You can get veneer by buying a hole sheet of it. Just to make a little patch, you could probably go to a restoration shop. In your area and just get some scrap. We are going to cut around this, and put in a new patch. Now if you have the piece that already feel out. What you would need to do is clean off the old clue. Take the new piece and put some clue on it. Press it into place and put a little bit of weight on it. If you don't have the old piece. We will cut a new patch and I will show you how to do that."