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[Andrew Vida]

See if you can still get Baltic birch plywood.  Hard as shit, very 
stable, free of voids, excellent material.  Remember your laminated 
chair-desky thing in high school/college/etc?  Baltic birch ply.  Fab 
material.

Paul N wrote:
> 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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