"Alexander Galkin" wrote in
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I decided to build kitchen cabinets case from 3/4" hard maple plywood.
I called several places and only one carries A-1 grade maple plywood.
Others only B-1 grade and they tried to convince me it is perfectly
suitable for furniture making. What grade do I really need? What other
characteristics (i.e. number of plies and face veneer thickness) do I
need to consider beyond grade? 3/4" plywood will be used for case
side, bottom and top, 1/2" or 1/4" will be used for back. I will also
probably use 1/2" or 3/4" plywood for drawer bottoms, all drawer sides
will be solid maple. Also can anyone point me where I can buy
inexpensively hard maple plywood?



http://www.statesind.com/market/zipcode.html

That's the dealer locator for States Industries, the maker of Appleply, a
premium cabinet grade plywood. They will almost certainly be your best
source for quality goods from other sources as well. In the SF Bay Area, I
use www.pals4wood.com. No affiliation, etc.

What the other poster said about buying prefinished makes a whole lot of
sense to me as well, particularly for the interior parts.

If you want inexpensive, you can hang out at the Borg, and wait for a rare
sale on 3/4 maple ply, and then hope to purchase the correct number of
sheets, before they are all picked over, dinged up from shuffling and
warped from the stress of their very existence. I bought six sheets that
way about 18-20 months ago, for less that $35 each. There are 1.5 or so
left. That's not how I would go about buying material for my wife's
kitchen remodel, however.

Patriarch