After seeing many posts re this ply I finally
found some at the HD near me. $26.88 ea
at the Hillsboro OR store. 11 internal plys
plus the skins which look like alder but I'm
not sure. Some have minor spalting on them.
All that I saw were billiard table flat and there
were about 30pcs left about an hour ago.

Art

"Wood Butcher" wrote in message
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After seeing many posts re this ply I finally
found some at the HD near me. $26.88 ea
at the Hillsboro OR store. 11 internal plys
plus the skins which look like alder but I'm
not sure. Some have minor spalting on them.
All that I saw were billiard table flat and there
were about 30pcs left about an hour ago.

Art


And the face grades are? My local borg has oak all the time (in "cabinet
grade" whatever that means).
Jim

With a bunch of voids in them. Tom

No knots/patches/splits on the good side.
Tight knots, small (1/8") splits, no voids on the B side.
If you need more than this, point me to a site where
I can learn about hardwood ply grading and I'll see
if I can do better.

Art

"Jim" wrote in message
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"Wood Butcher" wrote in message
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After seeing many posts re this ply I finally
found some at the HD near me. $26.88 ea
at the Hillsboro OR store. 11 internal plys
plus the skins which look like alder but I'm
not sure. Some have minor spalting on them.
All that I saw were billiard table flat and there
were about 30pcs left about an hour ago.

Art


And the face grades are? My local borg has oak all the time (in "cabinet
grade" whatever that means).
Jim

Perhaps. No voids visible at the edges though.

Art

"tom" wrote in message
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With a bunch of voids in them. Tom

I had a bad experience with H.D. oak ply at approximately twice the
price of the stuff you've found. No voids visible at the edges, either.
Once bitten, twice shy, and all that. Tom

On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 20:02:38 -0800, Wood Butcher wrote:

Perhaps. No voids visible at the edges though.


With a bunch of voids in them. Tom


I've taken whole sheets and cut them into 3" x 8' pieces to gbuild model
railroad benchwork. I found very few voids and the ones I did find were
small.

But the faces on mine looked more like maple than alder, so we may be
talking about 2 different types.

Wood Butcher wrote:
After seeing many posts re this ply I finally
found some at the HD near me. $26.88 ea
at the Hillsboro OR store. 11 internal plys
plus the skins which look like alder but I'm
not sure. Some have minor spalting on them.
All that I saw were billiard table flat and there
were about 30pcs left about an hour ago.


Your local cabinetmaker(s) is probably using this material as his
secondary wood where particleboard and MDF won't serve. I've used some,
will use more. It is made in China, the outer plies are either alder or
poplar of some kind, and the glue stinks or tends to when it's cut. I
made a lumber rack out of some: no voids in the cuts or on the edges. I
have no idea what the inner plies are, but I wouldn't hesitate to use
it for things like painted cabinet doors, drawer fronts, etc.

What I really, really want to know is how on earth they can import the
wood for most of this plywood, which involves major shipping, then
manufacture and ship the plywood many thousands of miles, often back to
the point of the original wood's origin, and then sell it for 28 bucks
a sheet retail. Obviously, their cost has to be very little more than
the wood itself, plus transport, and transport per sheet has to be
incredibly cheap.

Subject

Need constrution grade material, go to HD.

Need cabinet grade plywood, go to a plywood distributor.

Lew

"Charlie Self" wrote in news:1132049258.325930.87150
@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:

a sheet retail. Obviously, their cost has to be very little more than
the wood itself, plus transport, and transport per sheet has to be
incredibly cheap.


Maybe they store opium in the voids?

Local one here in North. Cal, has the same.
I am tempted to get some, but just for
shop aid stuff. Not cabinets. However, I
have enough of these HD specials. Usually
after awhile they seem to bend all over
the place.

I'll buy the good stuff when I need it.

MJ Wallace