table tops

[pandos]

I am thinking of making a new cabin table top and nav tabletop. I was thinking of using marine ply with some marketry( bad speller) in hardwood veneers on top. Do I need to worry about balance. Is .6mm veneer thick enough in practice?? what glue should I use. I was thinking of spraying the finished job with a few coats of moisture cure two pack polyurethene varnish.

Any suggestions?? comments.

Tony.

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[Spuddy]

OK then, I'll kick off.
By balance, I assume you mean a veneer on the back to equalise the pull. Long while ago I did some veneering with animal glue on a bit of 1/4 ply and that bowed - but I reckon that was cos of the shrinkage through drying. Since then what little I've done has been with Thixofix, using a balancer cos I'm a chippie and that's the way to do it. But pausing for thought, maybe these new fangled sheets of adhesive that bond by ironing them don't distort because they're not wet. I'd be interested if anybody knows the answer to the balance or not to balance question.
So far as I know, you'd only get teak veneer in 0.6mm and that should be OK; the 3mm constuctional veneers only used to come in chewed string mock mahogany.
I'd be interested to know current practice on this but I can't be bothered to experiment at the moment cos I'm constructing a theremin as a displacement activity from fixing the seized engine.
regards...spuddy

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[pandos]

Thanks for that spuddy. I am also a chippy and have used thixofix for a lot of laminating, in fact it was our secret ingredient when we laminated stainless facings on to doors, I have never used it for fine finishing work. obviously there was no prospect of it comming through the face of the steel but .6 veneer is a different matter. I am also reluctant to do experiments if others have found really good ways already,

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