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Show Hardwood Veneer Cut Thin j To Reveal Beauty of Grain The attractive wood grain patterns pat-terns found in hardwood veneer are made possible by the thinness of each veneer sheet. The effects achieved cannot be duplicated in thick, solid wood. After sheets of veneer are sliced from a log, they are kept in order Eoth piece of wood retains the siime fjns.tinn it h:'.ri in the living liv-ing t -t'e ,-i - ,c , ' "i"';! sheets is .-.j p -i " i t -''red hi ,, , .L" . V. : , .1. i I 'l.'ss c' . . I.. . . ' '' b ' '- '' .f h .iv., , , , i , . ;. -r OIK- . . I. . . ' ri - " f act.,;. ' ..wi pat terns avs l'i'cjKy! The U. S Department of Commerce Com-merce says: "Owing to the wide diversity of figure types and to the fact that adjacent veneers from the same flitch (piece of log from which veneers are cut) can be matched to make symmetrical designs, there is hardly any limitation to the variety of patterns which can be produced. "The art of matching veneers has been developed to such a high degree of perfection that the well-, informed designer may obtain al-. most any desired effect and may realize the full value of every wood. Thus, the exquisite wood panels of modern homes, radio and television cabinets, or fine furniture, which we enjoy, are achieved. "In the process of matching, the veneers may have to be squared, or clipped at an angle, or cut into a number of small segments, or treated in some other manner, depending de-pending upon the result desired. S:nce each sheet carries a pattern almost identical to that of the sheet next to it, they must all be rut in exactly the same place. "Sometimes a third, a half, or in rare cases only a fourth of each sheet of veneer can be used, merely because only a small portion por-tion of its pattern would help form the perfect design needed for a beautifully matched table top or dresser front." Despite the thinness of hardwood hard-wood veneer, in its final form it is stronger than solid wood. The reason for this is that sheets of veneer are combined into hardwood hard-wood plywood. Full resistance to splitting and warping is a characteristic charac-teristic of hardwood plywood's cross-grain construction. |