On 3/6/2018 11:02 AM, dpb wrote:
On 3/5/2018 9:08 AM, Leon wrote:
On 3/5/2018 8:46 AM, dpb wrote:
On 3/4/2018 3:49 PM, Leon wrote:
On 3/3/2018 5:03 PM, dpb wrote:
On 3/3/2018 11:23 AM, Leon wrote:
On 3/3/2018 8:57 AM, Brewster wrote:
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I'm still amazed at how a tree can be peeled so perfectly like
that. It just don't seem right 8^)

-BR

Yeah, a very sharp knife on a lathe like machine.Â* Little waste!

VERRRRY, VERRRRRRRRRRY sharp, indeed!

And to really boggle your mind, just how sharp are the cutters that
are used for for making "3 ply" plywood that is only 1/64" thick??
That is not even a hair thicker than .005" for each ply, assuming
glue is thinner than that.

https://www.easybuiltmodels.com/ply.htm
...

Indeed.Â* I've not seen one of the super-thin ply mills but many of
the furniture-grade veneer mills use a rotating squared blank that
isn't spun on its center but rotated like a cam against the knife.
That's cutting flitches for book-matching and the like, not face
sheets like for ply, of course.

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Wow I would like to see that!

Yeah, too bad when I was doing all that stuff lo! those many years ago
there wasn't such a thing as a cell phone with video capability;

No Kidding

somewhere in the depths of the storage/moving boxes are photos, but
those haven't been unpacked since the move back to the farm in 2000...

I miss analog/film, except for that part. ;~)