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Flexner on Fixing

/Shaping the patch. After baling the repair to the substrate using a chisel. I cut the veneer patch and trim u to fit snugly. The veneer is I uropean walnut, which is considerably lighter in cotor {closer to tan) than American black walnut. If I didn't haw any solid European walnut, I coukl use American walnut, but I would have 10 bleach the color out of the Wood, then statn rr to match, which could be difficult. I could also gkie several layers of thinner I uro pean walnut veneer on top of one another to create the thickness, but cutting the veneer torn solid, as I'm doing here, is always best

SRub joint. Because of its thickness, I can glue the veneer patch, which I cut thicker than needed {called 'leavingproud"), quick!y and simply usjng a rub toint. But damps wouldn r be difficult to arrange here.

9L eveling. I use a block plane, scraper and sandpaper to M the veneer patch to the surrounding wood, h s important to avoid cutting \nto the surrounding old veneer. If you art off some of the aged surface wood, you may expose wood that >s lighter or darker and create difficult color matching problems. Applying masking tape around the patch can be betptoL Working slowly and carefully is essential.

n Finished. I iere's thecomf>leted repair with a wax finish applied. Wax lias the common finish used in the early IOth century and it continues to be the finish on this piece. Ihe repair stands out a little in this close-up, but it disappears in the larger shot shown at the beginning of this article. Only someone who kno ws it's there would find it, which is all that you can ask for in a repair. PYV

•A A Trimming. With the top surface of the patch leveled, I trim the I vl end using a chisel because of the difficulty of getting a hand-plane into the narrow area above the hinge. Notice the missing veneer to the left of the hinge. I popped it off (by insening denatured alcohol,) to make the shaping and trimming of the patch easier. With the patch trimmed flush I will reattach the veneer so it covers the edge as it originalS' did.

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