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[Paul N]

Bruce,
Can you define "hardwood plywood". These days, even hardwood veneered 
plywoods are largely crap unless you go find an 11-ply at a specialty 
lumber shop. (And the external veneers are literally paper thin)

In any case, I'd expect the core layers to be pretty much whatever cheap 
lumber they could find. Afterall, that's one of the purposes of the 
material, to save on the cost by using less desirable species for the 
interior. (The other advantage is that the plywood is more stable)

side note: it seems the last post I made is still floating around out 
there somewhere, and I didn't log a copy. If it doesn't show up soon, 
I'll try to recall what I wrote.

**paul


On 12/21/10 9:38 AM, Bruce Freeman wrote:
> Barrel hoops used to be made of greenwood.  Take wythies (watersprouts
> of willow, typically) and split them lengthwise.  Place flat against
> leather and nail on.
>
> BTW, anyone who thinks you can't nail into the edge of plywood hasn't
> tried it on hardwood plywood, which is a different animal from the
> softwood plywood used in construction.
>
> On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 10:19 AM,<xlch58 at swbell.net>  wrote:
>> On 12/21/2010 8:11 AM, Bob Ehrenberger wrote:
>>> Paul,
>>>
>>> You may be able to bond a strip of solid wood to the edge of the plywood.
>>> Back when I used to do some wood work (before blacksmithing) if I made a set
>>> of book shelves I would cover the cut edges with solid wood to hide the fact
>>> that it was mainly plywood. Of course on a curved surface you would need to
>>> heat or steam the strips to get them to bend, that makes it a lot more work.
>>>
>>> Robert Ehrenberger
>>> Shelbyville, Mo.
>>> eforge at centurytel.net
>>
>> Cut them real thin and stack them and glue them around the rim of the
>> plywood.  No steaming necessary.
>>
>> Charles
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