Real thickness plywood in Ottawa Canada?

I don't know your town, so I can't answer your question directly.

but.....

veneered mdf panels measure out closer to their nominal sizes than veneer core panels at the places I buy them. look in the phone book for hardwood distributors, perhaps cabinet shop suppliers. home despot is the wrong place to be looking.

Try The WoodSource (Adams & Kennedy), Manotick

As I said in my message, I tried Wood Source, they only have the

Why does it have to be exactly 1/4? I'll dare to second-guess that it is because you need to make it fit exactly in 1/4 grooves; if that's the case, you could get (from Lee Valley, at least, but I bet from any other supplier as well) Plywood router bits, which have the exact measurements of plywood panels (i.e., you'll find your 15/64 straight bit).

You probably knew all this, and I apologize if I'm insulting you with information that is trivia for you. But I thought it might be worth mentioning, just in case.

Cheers,

Carlos

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Oops, missed that part. My only other suggestion would be Pilon Ltee. in Hull. They will order special but no guarantee what they call 1/4 won't be

Here's a couple of sources in Ottawa. Try calling them up if you haven't dealt with them before.

Hahaha... Ok, if you want it and you know it does exist, then no reason why you should settle for less than that :-)

Sorry I can't be of more help... I'm in Montreal, and the couple of Plywood panels I've bought from Robert Bury (which, BTW, I think they have offices in several other cities in Canada) of nominal thicknes 3/4 are not really 3/4 -- more like 47/64 or 23/32.

Never asked them if they have panels of true 1/4 or 1/2 or 3/4, because the thickness wasn't really critical for me, but you might want to try them (assuming that they have offices in Ottawa, which I think may be the case). They do have a variety of good-quality Plywood.

Carlos

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Can you be flexible on the "oak" part of your request? The Baltic birch I bought from The WoodSource measures as close to 1/4" as I can see.

(I didn't think so.)

- Owen -

I always assumed that standard plywood was interchangeable with it's "listed" thickness.

For example, 3/4" simply meant the 23/32 stuff everyone sells.

Barry

Most 3/4" plywood these days (Canadian plywood) is actually in Metric in size. I've seen 17, 18, 19, 19.5 mm. 19mm or 19.5mm are the most common I believe. It's a pain mostly in the sense that additional router bits have to be purchased to accommodate it.

If you mean for dadoing, I dado with a saw.

The dado gets shimmed to whatever plywood I'm using.

Barry

I have figured out it is easier to use my table saw to fine tune the slot. I cut the critical dimension first then just "sneak up" on the slot size moving the fence until a scrap of the plywood I am using is a good fit. You can use the router to eat out the material between the cuts.

Well... some years back I was building something (I don't recall what now) But it used 3/4 cabinet grade plywood. I had an old scrap I set the dado blade to cut the groves. Then went to my local supply place and bought a new sheet. The new sheet was the new 23/32, and I had cut all the dado's for rea

It's like trying to find real 2x4s, when you are remodeling a house old enough to have been built with 2x4s, rather then 1-1/2 by 3-1/2