Why didn't you just say that in the first place? That's obviously what you meant by your first post, but you didn't have the stones to just say it.
Next time, either keep your convoluted insults to yourself, or grow a pair and say what you really think. :-)
I've always been able to find QSWO plywood with nice figure here on the Gulf Coast:
The bottom doors in this corner cabinet I build a few years back are frame and panel doors with 1/4" QSWO plywood panels.
Here they are with just one coat of stain:
The two back panels of the case are 3/4" QSWO ply, and they have a nice figure also, although you can't tell by the archaic digital photo.
I am just about to start a new job and will be ordering 3/4 quarter sawn maple for the drawer fronts and doors. I am looking for the relatively straight grain that qtr gives you vs the cathedral grain of flat sawn. It just has to do with what look you are after and your budget. I guess I am paying about $50 more per sheet to get the qtr and I am having to have it made up special. Plain sawn is stocked.
Neither is better than the other. Which do you want to use is the question.
JMHO Harvey
Quarter sawn. You can see the that a little more eaisly on the pics where the bookmatches are not so obvious.
Thank you.
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This problem mostly exists because of the way light reflects back off off and or out of the grain. Typically book matched pieces have the grain pointing in mirrored dirrections also. Actually you can often see regular hard woods change from light to dark and back again if you spin the wood
360 degrees and or walk around the piece. I have found that if you stain the pieces the light and dark is much less dramatic if noticeable at all. Clear unobstructive finishes that do not stain the wood tend to exagerate the light and dark patterns.
Very.
That depends. Quarter-sawn maple (sugar maple, in my experience) can have some _very_ nice looking ray fleck, and in my opinion it's worth the effort to seek it out if you have the lumber at your disposal.
That can be true, however if you have the time and patients to look through a quantity of quarter sawn plywood you will in deed find those pieces that have pretty impressive patterns. If you look at the foot board on the link below you will see the more exagerated quarter sawn pattern in the 1/2" plywood panels. The towers are also made with quarter sawn plywood but more closely resemble what you have come to expect, a rift sawn look.
Oops, make that 1/4" QS plywood panels.
The ply warping by itself is irrelevant.
You said the ply warping, is what pushed the rails and stiles out 2 inches. I just don't think that is physically possible.
Of course, I assumed you were talking hardwood, but I still don't buy it with softwood.
But hey, it's not worth arguing about.
Well, I can't see any figure on the forst pic, I guess maybe my monitor is not so great and the second pic kind of makes my point. It has a few nice flakes on the right panel but nothing I can see on the right and compared to the fantastic rays on the rails\stiles the ply look boring.
Yes those few lower panels have some nice figure. Not too common in my experience. For me, I usually order ply delivered and don't get to pick through the sheets and even though I can return stuff it isn't really fair to like order 10 sheets so I can find the one or two with good figure and return the others when the real expectation is that QS ply is going to be hit and miss in terms of figure.
Figure can be a very elusive thing. I have selected some great pieces of solid stock for projects only to plane away the great figure with the removal of just 1/32" off the surface. So I can image why it is difficult to get good slices for veenering ply.
One of my big hopes is to get my kit business up and running and start buying custom milled QS WO by the truck load. That is my nirvana!
"Boring"? Dayum, Bubba ... you sound like that guy in the recording studio that wants everything louder than everything else. :)
Yes those few lower panels have some nice figure. Not too common in my experience. For me, I usually order ply delivered and don't get to pick through the sheets and even though I can return stuff it isn't really fair to like order 10 sheets so I can find the one or two with good figure and return the others when the real expectation is that QS ply is going to be hit and miss in terms of figure.
As one of the owners of a supplier I use put it, if I pull the order they get what every one else picks through. We don't just throw the that stuff away, if they don't care enough to pick it out themselves they must not care what it looks like.
Well for me, the bigger suppliers don't allow anyone in their warehouse. I do have a place I can go and look at anything I want but not as convenient and not so easy to look through stacks of ply that have to be pulled down from racks, etc.
Hey, I guess you have heard my mixes. ;^)
Well for me, the bigger suppliers don't allow anyone in their warehouse. I do have a place I can go and look at anything I want but not as convenient and not so easy to look through stacks of ply that have to be pulled down from racks, etc.
I hear you, fortunately I only had to look through 1/4" stacks. ;~)
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