My activities in 2015 & my plans for 2016!

[Yorkie]

Re veneering Gary, my efforts over the years have been modest, but yes, I've always used hide glue, and made my own veneer 'hammers'. The last thing of any note that I veneered was a CD storage box I made in 2011 from beech ply for my son, veneered in rift oak veneer and stained dark oak. Not a very challenging effort as there were no curved surfaces - unlike the burr walnut veneered Barker 88 cabinet that Colin tackled! More than 100 posts and over 23,000 views in the veneering thread:

http://golbornevintageradio.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?tid=306&highlight=Veneering

Of course, on youtube the experts make it look so easy - sloshing glue and water about all over the place, and you look at them and think "yes - that looks a doddle - I'll have a go at that", then only when you're clarted up with foul smelling glue do you realise that maybe you've deluded yourself and there's rather more to it than meets the eye!  Yet if you saw someone doing this, you'd know at first glance that you'd be right out of your depth so wouldn't fool yourself:

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5No3Gad_AI

(He's never had a lesson, is self-taught, and came from the roughest Council estate in Sheffield).