Neil
Fellow
Guys, one thing that makes me mad is people who take the ****.
Let me put this in perspective, I used to be in the timber trade, I designed interiors and cladding systems out of wood, I talked directly with large lumber merchants in the Appalachin mountains, dealt with the American Hardwood Export Council, was a member of Trada, etc etc. I bought in some bulk, the last job before I left the company I had worked with for seventeen years was to purchase 180 tons of European Oak. That job sadly went sour on the timber yard as they supplied slovenian cut timber sawn by an Italian mill whose total knowledge of wood was that leaves grew on trees. The wood was cut wrongly and cupped, bowed and twisted as a result and I condemned it - it went to firewood!
However, have you ever wondered how they cut veneer? There are two principle methods, and simplistically they get a log and cut it very thinly in a method that's called through and through, and then trim it to the sheets that you are probably familiar with (you can then use it to produce book matched, slip matched or mis matched boards - there are other recognised patterns for marketry). The other method is called rotary cut. The log is put onto what effectively is a very large lathe and the veneer blade which is a whole log length equivalent of a skew chisel, lowers itself mechanically onto the rotating log and the stuff peels off quickly. This is the way that they maximise a highly burred log and also create plywood.
You can always tell a rotary venner core, as they are called, because of the large holes that are made either end by the equivalent of a four prong drive, and the log remnant is around 190/200mm in diameter. Its not worth trying to flatten a veneer with the curvature in it any tighter than this.
I bought 3 cores of American Black for £20 each,
And they were a good buy, here's the side and end of half of the one above
And then you see things like this:
(And by the way its a stock clearance so it should be cheap?
Stock Clearance Turning Blank American Black Walnut Logs - Limited Stock | eBay
SL Hardwoods, you're having a laugh and ripping people off.
If you know of any veneer companies, ask them what they do with their veneer cores!
Let me put this in perspective, I used to be in the timber trade, I designed interiors and cladding systems out of wood, I talked directly with large lumber merchants in the Appalachin mountains, dealt with the American Hardwood Export Council, was a member of Trada, etc etc. I bought in some bulk, the last job before I left the company I had worked with for seventeen years was to purchase 180 tons of European Oak. That job sadly went sour on the timber yard as they supplied slovenian cut timber sawn by an Italian mill whose total knowledge of wood was that leaves grew on trees. The wood was cut wrongly and cupped, bowed and twisted as a result and I condemned it - it went to firewood!
However, have you ever wondered how they cut veneer? There are two principle methods, and simplistically they get a log and cut it very thinly in a method that's called through and through, and then trim it to the sheets that you are probably familiar with (you can then use it to produce book matched, slip matched or mis matched boards - there are other recognised patterns for marketry). The other method is called rotary cut. The log is put onto what effectively is a very large lathe and the veneer blade which is a whole log length equivalent of a skew chisel, lowers itself mechanically onto the rotating log and the stuff peels off quickly. This is the way that they maximise a highly burred log and also create plywood.
You can always tell a rotary venner core, as they are called, because of the large holes that are made either end by the equivalent of a four prong drive, and the log remnant is around 190/200mm in diameter. Its not worth trying to flatten a veneer with the curvature in it any tighter than this.
I bought 3 cores of American Black for £20 each,
And they were a good buy, here's the side and end of half of the one above
And then you see things like this:
(And by the way its a stock clearance so it should be cheap?
Stock Clearance Turning Blank American Black Walnut Logs - Limited Stock | eBay
SL Hardwoods, you're having a laugh and ripping people off.
If you know of any veneer companies, ask them what they do with their veneer cores!