After seeing many posts re this ply I finally
found some at the HD near me. $26.88 ea
at the Hillsboro OR store. 11 internal plys
plus the skins which look like alder but I'm
not sure. Some have minor spalting on them.
All that I saw were billiard table flat and there
were about 30pcs left about an hour ago.
Art
Wood Butcher wrote:
> After seeing many posts re this ply I finally
> found some at the HD near me. $26.88 ea
> at the Hillsboro OR store. 11 internal plys
> plus the skins which look like alder but I'm
> not sure. Some have minor spalting on them.
> All that I saw were billiard table flat and there
> were about 30pcs left about an hour ago.
>
Your local cabinetmaker(s) is probably using this material as his
secondary wood where particleboard and MDF won't serve. I've used some,
will use more. It is made in China, the outer plies are either alder or
poplar of some kind, and the glue stinks or tends to when it's cut. I
made a lumber rack out of some: no voids in the cuts or on the edges. I
have no idea what the inner plies are, but I wouldn't hesitate to use
it for things like painted cabinet doors, drawer fronts, etc.
What I really, really want to know is how on earth they can import the
wood for most of this plywood, which involves major shipping, then
manufacture and ship the plywood many thousands of miles, often back to
the point of the original wood's origin, and then sell it for 28 bucks
a sheet retail. Obviously, their cost has to be very little more than
the wood itself, plus transport, and transport per sheet has to be
incredibly cheap.
"Charlie Self" <[email protected]> wrote in news:1132049258.325930.87150
@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:
> a sheet retail. Obviously, their cost has to be very little more than
> the wood itself, plus transport, and transport per sheet has to be
> incredibly cheap.
Maybe they store opium in the voids?
"Wood Butcher" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> After seeing many posts re this ply I finally
> found some at the HD near me. $26.88 ea
> at the Hillsboro OR store. 11 internal plys
> plus the skins which look like alder but I'm
> not sure. Some have minor spalting on them.
> All that I saw were billiard table flat and there
> were about 30pcs left about an hour ago.
>
> Art
>
>
And the face grades are? My local borg has oak all the time (in "cabinet
grade" whatever that means).
Jim
On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 20:02:38 -0800, Wood Butcher wrote:
> Perhaps. No voids visible at the edges though.
>
>> With a bunch of voids in them. Tom
>>
I've taken whole sheets and cut them into 3" x 8' pieces to gbuild model
railroad benchwork. I found very few voids and the ones I did find were
small.
But the faces on mine looked more like maple than alder, so we may be
talking about 2 different types.
Perhaps. No voids visible at the edges though.
Art
"tom" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> With a bunch of voids in them. Tom
>
No knots/patches/splits on the good side.
Tight knots, small (<1/8") splits, no voids on the B side.
If you need more than this, point me to a site where
I can learn about hardwood ply grading and I'll see
if I can do better.
Art
"Jim" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>
> "Wood Butcher" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > After seeing many posts re this ply I finally
> > found some at the HD near me. $26.88 ea
> > at the Hillsboro OR store. 11 internal plys
> > plus the skins which look like alder but I'm
> > not sure. Some have minor spalting on them.
> > All that I saw were billiard table flat and there
> > were about 30pcs left about an hour ago.
> >
> > Art
> >
> >
> And the face grades are? My local borg has oak all the time (in "cabinet
> grade" whatever that means).
> Jim
>
>