Est. 1998 — 27 years of woodworking knowledge
Rotary Cut Veneer?
Rob in Kansas
>Okay I found someone less that 1000 miles from me that has a rotary veneer slicer that will do a couple logs for an initial estimate of $150-175 (vs $3K).
Other than Bird's eye what species work well with R/C? I wanted to get some veneer from crotch and/or stump figure to use for door panels and drawer fronts. The only thing is I don't know if I could book match R/C very well.
Any comments either way?
Re: Rotary Cut Veneer?
Moses Yoder in White Pigeon, MI
>You can buy a lot of veneer for $200, probably more than you would use in 5 years. There is a dealer that was at the M-WTCA meet, I forget his name but could probably find him and some of the other's here probably know him. Very nice stuff and very inexpensive per square foot; I would suggest buying veneer rather than having it made out of your own logs. I would take the log you have and get it cut into lumber. If you really want veneer, you can saw the dried lumber into veneer, either with a frame saw or with tailed apprentices.
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Ernie Miller Topeka
>You working in the morning there will be a great estate sale it starts at 8:30 every thing good will be gone when I leave. they have a garage and basement full of tools.
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Paul M. in San Diego
>Rotary cut veneer always gives you the type of grain pattern that you find on the "B" side of plywood. This is not a very pleasing wood pattern. The prime benefit of rotary is that it's cheaper because you don't have to joint together small pieces to cover a large space.
All crotch wood veneer that I've seen has been flat sheared. Most users want several adjacent leaves of crotch pattern to bookmatch and rotate to make interesting patterns for large surfaces. It is really hard to bookmatch rotary cut veneers.
Probably not what you wanted to hear... sorry!
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Rob in Kansas
>Thanks Moses & Paul,
The deal is it is a tree from the family farm and I was trying to do what I can with it. (Sentimental type thing). Since I hope to have my Crescent band saw restored by the end of August I'll just plan on making my own veneer with it. Otherwise, I'm going to mill it into a minimum of 6/4 stock with quite a bit of 12/4 so I can do cabrole legs and ball and claw feet!
I think I will go ahead and have a little bit done to use as backing veneer on projects. I'm also wanting to start doing some marquetry this fall/winter. Might get some interesting looks for it???
Ernie...Thanks for the heads up, but I'm not going to make it. Where did you see it? I'd been looking on the paper's website and it doesn't list anything for today! I did find a couple turning tools. Now I want to keep an eye open for carving chisels. With my new lathe I plan on seeing how I do with a pie crust table after I finish Adam's chalange and a couple other projects.
Rob
Pie crust table
Roger Nixon
>Sounds like you've been reading "Fine Furniture for the Amature Crafstman". :)
Re: Pie crust table
Rob in Kansas
>That and an 80's copy of FWW! This cooler weather has been great. My sweat has actually come from working, not just walking in the house!
I've gotten my Crescent striped and mostly repainted. A few parts to go. I'll post a picture in a week or two. Mind if I post pictures on your website? It could have been foot powered, or water even? Although she has enough energy I don't think I'll hook up Lili to it like Ernie would...she'd doen't have the attention span to complete one board!
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Ernie Miller Topeka
>That is a pretty big saw I think it would take Lilly and Streach to get it up to speed.
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Rob in Kansas
>Lili has all that puppy energy, but you may be right, she is only about 6 or 7 pounds! :)
So what was the result of your sale?