1/4" 4' x 8' oak plywood?

Re: 1/4" 4' x 8' oak plywood?

Thomas Stockton

JL

pretty major shortages out here on the west coast, my local yard is out of a lot of things. They say the cause was the winter freeze in Texas ruined a bunch of resin used in the glues.

Tom

Re: 1/4" 4' x 8' oak plywood?

Bill Tindall, E.Tn.

Go to Home Depot contractor sales. They can order from a place in NC that puts up a good product. Many loggers around here sell logs to them. I think their name is Columbia, drawing a blank.

I used columbia's cherry...

David Weaver

or one of their cherry ply types for my kitchen cabinets (the core looks like poplar). It wasn't that expensive and there is very little glue in the plywood that I got (almost entirely wood - so much so that it doesn't bugger plane irons or saw teeth).

I don't recall a single defect in 14 sheets.

Re: I used columbia's cherry...

Bill Tindall, E.Tn.

yes they use poplar cores, often logged in East TN

I went to their page...

David Weaver

..and could no longer find the same ply. It was pure something or some such name, but it looks like they use different cores now (not surprising, that was a decade ago or close to it).

https://i.imgur.com/u8l6P7C.jpg

You can see the ply on the side of the back corner cabinet with what looks like a bookmatch. It was so workable that I made that entire cabinet, aside from the door, with hand tools. From sawing the plywood to cutting the dadoes with a dado plane. It turned out to be easier than building them with router table, battens, etc, and there was just enough slop in the fit to make the glue-up a whole lot easier.

Way easier.

Not to suggest that it's cheap as I said it "wasn't that expensive", it was about $95 a sheet 10 years ago but I would buy it again 20 times if I had to.