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Show Cutting Fine Veneers. Few people have an idea how thin a sheet of veneer may be cut with the aid of improved machinery. There is a firm in Paris which makes a business of cutting cut-ting veneers, and to such perfection have they brought it that from a single tusk thirty inches long they will cut a sheet of ivory one hundred and fifty inches long and twenty inches wide. Some of the sheets of rosewood and mahogany ma-hogany are only about a fiftieth p an inch in thickness. ' Of course, they cannot can-not cut all woods so thin as this, for the grain of many varieties is not sufficiently sufficient-ly close to enable such fine work to be done, but the sheets of boxwood, maple and other woods of this character are often so thin as to be translucent. |