"SonomaProducts.com" wrote in message
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When you say the grain is very thick and darker I think you are looking
at the back side. I assume by thick you mean rough. If you have a piece
of ply and one side is smooth and one not smooth, then the smooth side
is the good face. No question.

All that being said, use the side you like the look of the best.


Absolutely. Might be the same as some oak I got a while back, too. Rotary
on one face, flitch slice on the other.

With maple and birch, they tend to use the darker heartwood veneers as the
counterpoint to the light sapwood the customer expects.