On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 00:21:06 -0500, "Todd Fatheree"
wrote:

IMHO, I don't think ply has a place in "high end furniture". But then, my
definition of high end furniture might differ from someone else's. For
those who tend to disagree, I would ask them how many have made what they
consider to be a fine quality table top from plywood, because that would be
the perfect example of an application where something large, flat, and
dimensionally stable is desirable. If you want to take it to an extreme, I
took a couple of woodworking classes here in Chicago and the head of the
operation told me that, unlike solid wood, plywood doesn't have a "soul".
Now, I'm not ready to go quite that far, but I don't use it in anything I
consider to be high end.

todd


Made a dining room table once that had an elliptical top about eight
feet in the longest dimension and 42" measured at a 90 to the long
C/L.

Used 3/4" thk Appleply with bandsawn 5/16" thk flame figured
Circassian Walnut, cut from a slab that was 4" thk, glued to the
substrate.

The "veneer" met a rabbeted apron on the perimeter that included a
1/4" wide inlay of holly.

This "plywood job" was pretty high end, I'm thinking, as the folks
paid $12,000.00 for the table.



Tom Watson - WoodDorker
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