July 25, 1919 



Hardwood Record — Veneer & Panel Section 



ROTARY CUT 



Birch, Plain Maple & Birds Eye Maple 



FENEERS OF MERIT 



Manufactured from prime logs harvested from the 

 virgin forests of NORTHERN MICHIGAN, 



the texture and beauty of which is soothing to the 



Quality and Workmanship Unexcelled 



eye and marvelously refining to the interior oj 

 your home, church or place of business. Uniform 

 courtesy and promptness are our watchwords. 



BIRDS E YE VENEER CO., Esca.aha, mm. 



Thinnest Sheets of Wood 



The thinnest sheets or slices of wood are not cut lengthwise with 

 the gram, as might be supposed, but transversely, across the end 

 of the stick. Machines are now in use in laboratories which cut 

 slices of wood so thin that 5,000 of them are required to stack up 

 an inch in height. They are scarcely as thick as a leaf of gold 

 foil. It was formerly supposed that a sheet of wood one-thou- 

 sandth of an inch thick was about the maximum of thinness, but 

 that was for sheets sliced lengthwise with the grain. A thinner 

 sheet, cut lengthwise, falls to pieces of its own weight, but when 

 cut across the end, it holds together down to one five-thousandth of 

 an inch. Sheets cut that thin are always very small and have no 

 practical use e.xcept in the preparation of microscope slides. 



Remarkable Wood Mosaics 



The awakened interest in old furniture has caused the publica- 

 tion of descriptions of some rare pieces exhibited in London in 

 I 85 1, as follows: 



Marine table; a mosaic of 1 10,800 pieces, composed of the fol- 

 lowing woods in their natural colors: — English: Barberry, acacia, 

 oak, laburnum, sycamore, walnut, white holly, laurel, and oak and 

 birch in a state of partial decay; foreign; tulip, bar, natural purple, 

 beef, cocus, black ebony, green ebony, Madagascar, satin, canary, 

 fustic, orange, partridge, and rosewood. 



Chromatrope table; a mosaic of 129,500 pieces, composed of the 

 following woods in their natural colors: — English: Barberry, white 

 holly, grey holly, laburnum, plum, oak, yew, chestnut, hawthorn, 

 furze, broom, laurel, lilac, acacia, birch, walnut, and oak and birch 

 in a state of partial decay; foreign: tulip. King, black ebony, green 

 ebony, palmyra, partridge, prince's, canary. Botany Bay oak, beef, 

 fustic, orange, zebra, cam, bar, and natural purple. Design: birds 

 (North American), groosbeak, and Baltimore oriole. 



Rotary Veneer Men Meet 



The meeting of the Commercial Rotary Veneer department of 

 the American Hardwood Manufacturers' Association, held at the 

 Hotel Chisca, Saturday, the nineteenth, was a very enthusiastic 

 one. The attendance was large and much satisfaction was ex- 

 pressed over the benefits being derived from the statistical in- 

 formation compiled by the association for this department. In the 

 language of John M. Pritchard, secretary-manager of the associa- 

 tion, those identified with the department "are elated over the 

 progress being made in this direction." 



Demand for veneers, it was disclosed, is excellent while pro- 

 duction is being curtailed in much the same way as the manufac- 

 ture of hardwood lumber itself. The veneer men are having to 

 contend with the same shortage of cars, lack of logs, scarcity of 

 labor and other handicaps that confront the lumber manufacturers 

 themselves. Nothing was said in regard to stocks, however, for 

 the reason that most of the veneers are made on orders and there 

 is never accumulation of importance in material of this character. 



G. W. Sparks of Des Arc, Ark., chairman of the department, 

 presided. 



Mr. Pritchard attended this meeting and left July 2 I , to attend 

 the monthly meeting of the Rotary Cut Box Lumber Manufac- 

 turers' Association held at the St. Charles Hotel, New Orleans. 

 July 22. 



I WANT TO INVEST 



in going panel plant. Have been connected with veneer and 

 panel industry for years. Address Box 77, care HARD- 

 WOOD RECORD. A-1 References (Bnancial and otherwise) 

 given and required. 



