Veneering Handbook

by Ian Hosker

"A concise introduction to veneering, the craft of affixing a thin layer of wood to a substrate. An excellent instructor, Hosker shows readers which materials and equipment are required and explains... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1861082304
• ISBN13: 9781861082305
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Sterling Publishing (NY)
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Suited to small workshop veneering

So far this is the only book I've seen that provides the kind of advice I, as a small workshop user, am seeking on veneering. I haven't worked on veneering before, but do like to do things well. Hosker is aimed at hand-applied techniques and for this provides a lot of useful detail (on applications etc) and context (on wood behaviour etc), and has plenty of illustrations. He reviews a number of application methods, although seems unaware of the technique of ironing dried PVA, (as detailed in a free online 83p PDF book, "Preparing and Applying Decorative Wood Veneers and Inlays to Substrates" by the Decorative Wood Veneers Association in Australia, a very worthwhile publication to look up). Also absent is any discussion of urea formaldehyde use. Therefore there is no "pros and cons" discussion on these options. I noted that in regard to hammer veneering with animal glue, Hosker isn't as quite as complete as Tage Frid's old article in Fine Woodworking. It is still a useful book, especially since there aren't too many veneering books that seem to be aimed at the informed small workshop user. He doesn't venture into vacuum presses or large commercial presses, a good thing in my view: those approaches are best treated elsewhere. But I'm still waiting for a truly comprehensive up-to-date illustrated treatment of manual technique for furniture veneering (rather than marquetry) for small workshop users.