This tutorial shows how easy it is to build custom drawer faces using vacuum veneering. Learn how to make a custom foam mold that can be used to make multiple drawer faces for furniture or kitchen cabinets.
Here are a couple of emails I received from Miikka A. Eerola about veneering a drum shell. Many thanks to Miikka for setting this up and sending pictures of his build.
This is a tutorial on using an external mold with the Thin Air Press. Sometimes building a simple wooden mold that veneers and the TAP bag can be externally wrapped around is a better solution than an internal mold.
This shows how to build a foam mold to laminate a chair back using the Thin Air Press. Building a mold using foam is an inexpensive alternative to making a mold from multi-layers of plywood. One of the good parts is that the material is inexpensive and the mold is completely re-usable many times over.
Here is a link to a series of streaming videos I have produced. Included is a good tutorial on using the Thin Air Press for clamping a marquetry project to a substrate.
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People frequently ask me "How much pressure is exerted on a project that has been placed inside a vacuum bag" and the answer is simple!
Other common vacuum questions are also answered in this tutorial.
