I am involved with a project in which I would like to veneer the back of a raised panel door tombstone insert, and I have been cautioned by a very experienced furniture builder that to do so may result in severe cupping of the panel.
The particulars are that the raised panel is to be about 8 x 30 by perhaps 1/2-inch finished thickness surrounded by a frame that is about 3/4 -inch x 3 inch rails on the sides and obviously somewhat wider at the top to accommodate the circular tombstone top cutout.
The door framing material is to be tiger maple, and the raised panel insert to be made from a slab of extremely heavily figured maple burl - parhaps best described as approaching crumbling, with the veneer on the rear of this insert panel to be camphor burl. I mention the materials to indicate why I feel driven to the construction I described to maintain the contrasting grains and figures.
Any advice about how to give this the best chance of success would be extremely valuable to me.
Karl
The particulars are that the raised panel is to be about 8 x 30 by perhaps 1/2-inch finished thickness surrounded by a frame that is about 3/4 -inch x 3 inch rails on the sides and obviously somewhat wider at the top to accommodate the circular tombstone top cutout.
The door framing material is to be tiger maple, and the raised panel insert to be made from a slab of extremely heavily figured maple burl - parhaps best described as approaching crumbling, with the veneer on the rear of this insert panel to be camphor burl. I mention the materials to indicate why I feel driven to the construction I described to maintain the contrasting grains and figures.
Any advice about how to give this the best chance of success would be extremely valuable to me.
Karl