OCR Text |
Show Wood Veneer No Subterfuge People who buy furniture would be doing themselves a service if they got rid of the idea that wood veneered furniture is an inferior product. This view is supported by the U. S. Department of Commerce, which emphasizes that wood veneer ve-neer is not used as a subterfuge and explains that the function of the face veneer is definitely not to cover inferior material. Hardwood veneers are used to make hardwood plywood, and it is from the plywood that furniture furni-ture is manufactured. Of hardwood hard-wood plywood, the Department of Commerce explains: "The plywood panels of which a nood piece of furniture is composed com-posed give that piece stability and durability. The hardwood plywood ply-wood table top or bedstead is not likely to twist or warp. Most of the finely figured wood used for the faces could not be fabricated except from veneers. Symmetrical designs can be produced only by matching veneers. Many fine woods in the form of burls, crotches, and stump could hardly be utilized at all except by manufacture man-ufacture into veneers." Recently developed glues used for bonding sheets of wood veneer together into hardwood plywood are stronger than the wood itself, producing an affinity between the glue and the wood that is greater than the affinity the fibers of the wood have for each other. |