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WoW! Nick, Once again you have shown that you are not affraid to tread where others have been hesitant.

I don't know if you have ever done veneer before. There are 2 methods that I know of for adhering the veneer.

Method one uses several coats of PVA glue on both surfaces and allowed to fully dry. Then you place the two surfaces together and iron the veneer with a household iron to melt the PVA glue and stick the veneer to the cabinet. I tried this method and it works pretty well. I suggest experimenting before you try it full on with your subject cabinet. The nice thing about this method is that you can position your piece of veneer precisely prior to hitting it with the iron and get a perfect fit with no mistakes.

Method two is the contact cement method we are all familiar with. Coat both surfaces with contact cement, wait till dry to the touch and then sitck the veneer down. This method does not allow for repositioning so where the pieces come together is what you are stuck with. IN most cases, you will be trimming off the excess anyhow so it won't matter.

I think either bonding method will work for what you are going to do.

This fall I will be visiting John Folsom and we will be doing Oak veneer on his Admiral Ambasador blonde set that is in worse shape than your CTC7 was. Glad to see there is a nice method of pealing off the crappy photo finish.

Do you hve any opinions on how you think the photo finishes were applied and what they were made from? I have always been curious about the process of photo finish, but have never been able to find any information on how this process was accomplished. I often wonder if it was an early form, or an offshoot of the Formica laminate process which is actually printed on paper and then compressed into a melamine sandwich.