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Hardwood Record — Veneer & Panel Section 



March 10, 1917 



PERKINS 



GLUE 

 COMPANY 



SOLE MANUFACTURERS 

 AND SELLING AGENTS 



PERKINS 

 Vegetable Veneer Glue 



(PATENTED JULY 2, 1912) 



805 J. M. S. BUILDING 

 SOUTH BEND, INDIANA 



All Three of Us Will Be Benefited if 



There is really no limit to the variety of stains which 

 might be obtained through special treatment of wood 

 before it is used any more than there is a limit to stains 

 which can be applied to wood after it is used, in treat- 

 ing the wood before it is used, there would be the advan- 

 tage that the staining effect would extend clear through 

 the wood instead of being a surface coat on the outside. 

 In the matter of face veneer, which is usually very thin 

 stock anyway, it should be an easy and comparatively 

 cheap proposition to stain it through and through either 

 by steaming or dipping process and make the staining 

 thorough. Then drying or redrying after staining would 

 be only a small matter and could be accomplished in 

 the driving out of surplus moisture in staining. 



In face veneer treated in this way before it goes into 

 the glue-room there should be a practical elimination of 

 troubles of blistering, and joints opening in the finishing 

 work because there would be no after moistening or 

 staining to do, nothing to do in fact but sand and finish 

 off. It is all a fine theory, but when we go to fit the 

 theory to practice there is trouble from the very start. 

 The first and biggest trouble is in the fact that fashions 

 in stains keep changing all the time and there is such a 

 lack of standardization that no man in one part of the 

 country can stain wood in advance to match some other 

 wood in some other part of the country. 



Say, for example, a panel man has an order for a 

 lot of furniture panels of a given kind of wood that are 

 to be finished with a certain stain. These panels must 

 fit in with other wood, solid wood of the same kind, 

 coming from some other source that makes up the frame- 

 work, and, of course, the staining must match. It simply 

 cannot be done if the panel man is merely furnishing the 

 panels and someone else the woodwork. 



At least it cannot be done under the present system 

 of using and interpreting stains. For example, take 

 quartered oak, and that stain known as golden oak. 

 These vary so much from time to time among different 

 users that what golden oak means to one man is an 

 entirely different thing from what it means to another, 

 so much, in fact, as to be an entirely different shade. 

 The golden oak shade is simply taken as one example, 

 and the same trouble obtains wth practically every 

 shade of stain in use. 



The only chance to remedy this matter and to intro- 

 duce the practice of staining wood before it is used is 

 to have some clear Emd specific standardization of stains 

 in woodwork. To do this it would be necessary to 

 eliminate many of the graduated shades of variation and 

 to reduce the whole matter down to a few distinct and 

 specific stains, and let every woodworker be provided 

 with samples of these for his guidance. Then, and then 

 only, can woodwork be stained in advance of using and 

 give anything like a fair degree of satisfaction. 



There is one other possible chance to handle this, and 

 that is by the man who furnishes the veneer and panels 

 furnishing the dimension stock and other lumber which 

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