April 29, 2009

WELCOME

This is our Thin Air Press blog. We will be highlighting woodworking projects, tutorials, news about vacuum veneering and the many things that can be done using our THIN AIR PRESS!

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Ted Hunter

Roarockit

June 4, 2007

Norm Abrams Secret Weapon

Norm Abrams from New Yankee uses our Thin Air Press to build the curves of a classic bow front chest.

Here is the link:

http://www.newyankee.com/video.cgi?0711

May 16, 2006

DRAWER FACE BUILD

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.

detail

TUTORIAL

VENEERING A DRUM SHELL

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.

Drum shell

TUTORIAL

EXTERNAL MOLD 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.

External

TUTORIAL

CHECKER BOARD BUILD

An easy to do veneering project with dramatic results!

Checkerboard

TUTORIAL

END TABLE TUTORIAL

 

This is a simple tutorial on laminating fancy veneers to a substrate material.

Table

TUTORIAL

LAMINATING A CHAIR BACK

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.

Chairback

TUTORIAL

May 10, 2006

MARQUETRY TUTORIAL

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.

.Marquetry

TUTORIAL

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