Veneer Over Hardwood

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Veneer over hardwood.

To determine if a piece is a veneer over hardwood it is often necessary to look at the back unfinished edge of the piece. The lumber companies who require hard and softwood lumber to make things like flooring cabinet doors etc get to choose from the logs that are left. If that was my aim i would use plywood as my core and apply veneer to both sides. Engineered flooring construction produces a very durable and stable floor.

A lot of antique furniture had veneer over solid wood. I agree that movement should be close to regular hardwood. All top grade veneer no knots or defects. And it wasn t always of the same species.

Using a thicker core of wood with an 1 8 veneer placed with the grain direction is the way i would approach this then anticipate and account for wood movement. Custom sizes and veneer sheets up to 8 long available. In the case of a dining room table this determination can be made by looking at the unfinished edge where leafs are inserted in the table top. Logs have to meet specific criteria in order to be utilized in veneer due to how the veneer flitches are skinned off the log etc.

20 hardwood species to choose from including walnut cherry and hard maple. I m sure that there are others here with lots more experience laying up veneer than i ve got. I ve seen mahogany veneer over native north american hardwood furniture on the antiques roadshow many times for example. Veneer sheets are trimmed to size and sanded on both sides.

Veneer is the top 1 32 to 1 4 layer of real wood that is glued over a layer of hardwood plywood cores or mdf hdf cores.