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Lowes new 5mm plywood
Dick Coers
Couldn't believe what I was looking at. Their 5mm utility plywood has a face veneer of edge grain plywood veneer. How in the hell do they slice it that thin, and not have the veneers blow up? Really nice looking though, if you like that laminated look. That's the face of the plywood in the picture.
Re: Lowes new 5mm plywood
Barry Irby
I have seen that plywood. Did not realize how the face was made, I will have to look closer. It is interesting looking. Why would they make it like that?
Re: Lowes new 5mm plywood
John K Jordan
Perhaps it's made from trimmings from other plywood. Or sliced up off-spec or scrapped plywood. Any sign of a repeating pattern from incremental slices?
JKJ
Re: Lowes new 5mm plywood *LINK*
Dick Coers
No repetition, but I didn't look down the sheet. At first I was thinking rift sawn, then I save where there was a veneer overlap and had that wiggle in the pattern. You can see that in the picture I took. I've seen manufactured veneer where they do different dye patterns and mimic rift sawn exotic woods, but this just looked like edge grain. https://www.patriottimber.com/RevolutionPly-Plywood.php
https://www.lowes.com/pd/RevolutionPly-5mm-Poplar-Plywood-Application-as-4-X-8/50121135
Looks like they lay up a block and slice *LINK*
https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/ee/d4/bc/0978a27e67b459/US8414996.pdf
Re: Looks like they lay up a block and slice
John K Jordan
The patent is interesting and explains well. Those patent lawyers certainly earned their money, heavy on sustianibility and appearance, specific enough on the details but with enough umbrella "could have"s to take to court, "worse" even than some of ours which our team found unreadable. I know a patent examiner and have great sympathy, I should send him a bottle of Excedrin.
Re: Lowes new 5mm plywood
TomD
What I notice about the plywood like that that we get up here is that it now has the face veneers running at the 90 degree axis. Makes it very prone to wrinking, and a lot less usable in many applications. Still amazing stuff as far as the quality of assembly is concerned. You get about 150 square feet of veneer for around 10 bucks.