Upscale wrote:

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It sounds like they may have been using their Resaw king blade. they
are very, very, extremely proud of it and charge accordingly. hey if
it does what you described, maybe its worth it.

At close to $2 US per inch (might even be more) it'd have to
do the cutting and the stacking. On my LT16SEC with a blade
length of 130 inches I can buy a lot of considerably less
expensive blades in batches of 50.


It might have been. The blade on this Laguna band saw reminded me of one of
those pictures of a great white shark baring all its teeth. I didn't inquire
further because I was too distracted by this perfectly thin, perfectly flat
piece of veneer. At first I didn't believe the veneer strip had been cut on
the band saw until I matched the grain with the solid block of wood behind
it. I don't think I've ever seen a more graphic sample of what a tool can
do. When you see something like that you know that if money wasn't an issue,
this is the one you'd buy without even thinking of looking at anything else.

Wouldn't happen to have been Torben, the president and founder of LT,
doing the slicing? He's a bandsaw freak - having done a lot of
laminated
stuff when he was still making furniture. And I'm betting the
bandsaw
had the LT ceramic guides as well (add another $250 US).

But really guys, what are you going to do with "see through" veneer
anyway? 1/16th inch and a little drum sanding is close enough.

charlie b