Interior plywood veneer

farfrompuken · Post by **farfrompuken** » Sun Mar 06, 2011 3:57 pm

Does anyone have any ideas of what to use on the factory plywood veneers inside to brighten it up? It's kind of dull. Tried oil that doesn't work. Was going to try either water based urithane or convensional.any other sugestions?

alexander38 · Post by **alexander38** » Sun Mar 06, 2011 5:08 pm

Did you use a real cleaner first to get all of the dirt and old oil out ? That's the way we do it every spring and seems to work best.

larryeddington · Post by **larryeddington** » Tue Mar 08, 2011 2:12 pm

What is Real Cleaner and where is it available?

alexander38 · Post by **alexander38** » Tue Mar 08, 2011 6:53 pm

Sorry phone turned teak into real. Should have read teak cleaner.

farfrompuken · Post by **farfrompuken** » Tue Mar 08, 2011 8:19 pm

well after looking more closely the wood I thought was veneer is really a formica. so the question now is what can I use to brighten it up?

alexander38 · Post by **alexander38** » Tue Mar 08, 2011 8:25 pm

I think last yr some covered this. I seem to remember paste wax and elbow puffing the hell out of it.

mr elevman · Post by **mr elevman** » Tue Mar 08, 2011 10:56 pm

wife uses murphys wood floor restorer and it works great

larglo · Post by **larglo** » Wed Mar 09, 2011 12:36 am

Last year I tried everything you can think of, but only lasted a few days before lookin dull again. I tried a out of way spot and varnished it. It looked great, and still does now, so this summer I'll continue doing small areas at a time, till I get the formica covered with the same stuff. Can't remember name of it now, but will get it in the morning, and post it.

Larry

prowlersfish · Post by **prowlersfish** » Wed Mar 09, 2011 6:47 am

Formica ? I believe someone must have changed it as the boats came with veneer

larglo · Post by **larglo** » Wed Mar 09, 2011 2:21 pm

Here is the products I was talking about. I'm only using the clear (varnish) to cover the paneling, be it Formica or veneer.

http://www.westmarine.com/webapp/wcs/st ... sNum=11061

Hope this helps.

Larry

Peter · Post by **Peter** » Wed Mar 09, 2011 4:10 pm

rip out the formica and replace with teak or mahogany plywood.

alexander38 · Post by **alexander38** » Wed Mar 09, 2011 5:51 pm

Use good plywood and teak veneer can be had for 50 bucks online it lots of fun.