Description

This is an excellent reference for sales representatives, specifiers, distributors, purchasing personnel, woodworkers and end users.

Topics Include:

Characteristics of species commonly used in hardwood plywood faces. Ash, Yellow Birch, Black Cherry, hard Maple, Red Oak, White Oak, Western White Pine and Black Walnut.
Including:
The tree, leaf, fruit, wood, working properties, physical properties.

Explanations and visuals of veneer cutting methods – Rotary, plain sliced, quartered and rift.

Core types and characteristics:: particle board, combination, MDF, veneer core and more..

Visuals on veneer matching: Book, slip, pleasing, plank, random.

Visuals on the organization of individual leaves for running match, balance match and center match.

Also inlcudes details on specifying hardwood, face and back grades, notes about sapwood and heartwood.