Show thin veneer 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 cuttin cutting 9 veneers venters ve and to such perfection have t they hey brought it that from a single tusk SO inches long they will cut a sheet ot of ivory inches long and 20 10 inches wide some of 0 the sheets of rosewood and ma mahogany bogany are only about a fiftieth of an inch in thickness of course they cannot cut nil all woods so thin as this for the crain grain of many varieties is not sufficiently 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 aa as to be translucent st louis globe democrat |