On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 21:02:56 -0500, "Todd Fatheree"
wrote:
"Tom Watson" wrote in message
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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".
And who would know better than you?
But then,my definition of high end furniture might differ from someone else's.
Do tell.
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.
And yet, when I presented you with exactly that situation, you chose
to nullify my experience, through some feat of mental gymnastics that
I am not privy to.
If you want to take it to an extreme,I
took a couple of woodworking classes here in Chicago
sigh...
and the head of the
operation told me that, unlike solid wood, plywood doesn't have a "soul".
This is damned interesting to me. I have a MA in philosophy and I
have never been able to be sure that I have a soul, let alone delving
into the possibility that wood that is cut thick has a soul, while
wood that is cut thin has none.
Now, I'm not ready to go quite that far, but I don't use it in anything I
consider to be high end.
And your definition of "High End" is what?
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.
That would be the major and minor axes.
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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As I suspected, there's a difference in my mind between "high end" and
"expensive".
This doesn't sound snotty to you?
There are certainly projects where plywood makes things
infinitely easier.
No ****?
todd
Dude:
Stay in Chicago.
You don't know dick and the Pizza in Philly is more than you can
handle.
Tom Watson - WoodDorker
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