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Hardwood Record — Veneer & Panel Section 



July 25, 1922 



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 May Move Furniture Exhibits to Chicago 



Indianapolis furniture manufacturers have a plan under con- 

 sideration to change the usual exhibit of their products to the 

 furniture mart at Chicago, and drop the present custom of exhibit- 

 ing at Grand Rapids furniture shows in January, June and July of 

 each year, according to Charles Albrecht, local furniture manu- 

 facturer and secretary of the Indianapolis Furniture Manufacturers' 

 Association. He returned late last week from the Grand Rapids 

 show. Manufacturers of furniture throughout Indiana are con- 

 sidering the Indianapolis movement and may join with the local 

 manufacturers, he said. 



Indiana manufacturers, he said, have merely been building up 

 the prestige of the Grand Rapids factories by exhibiting at the shows 

 there. He said Indianapolis manufacturers at Grand Rapids during 

 the last show booked more orders for fall delivery than at any 

 previous market since the war. Retailers are buying better furni- 

 ture as a result of the national better homes movement, he declared. 

 The new orders indicate most of the local plants will work to 

 capacity during the next few months. 



Indiana Veneer and Furniture Factories Increase 

 Operating Time 



The veneer factories of Evansville and those at Tell City, Ind., 

 Jasper, Ind., and other towns in southern Indiana are being oper- 

 ated on fairly good time now and the manufacturers are expecting 

 to see trade pick up some w^ith the improvement of the furniture 

 business. Manufacturers say that, taken as a whole, this has been 

 a better year than last and that they expect some improvement in 

 business during the remainder of the year. 



Definite plans for the semi-annual furniture and stove markets 

 to be held at Evansville, Ind., September I I to 16, were discussed 

 at a meeting of the advertising and entertainment committees of 

 the Evansville Furniture Manufacturers' Association held a few 

 days ago. G. E. Riechmann, manager of the Evansville Furniture 

 Company, is the chairman of the executive committee, while 

 Charles M. Frisse, secretary of the Globe-Bosse-World Furniture 

 Company, is the head of the entertainment committee. H. L- 

 Guth is the chairman of the advertising committee. The Evans- 

 ville manufacturers w^ho returned recently from the Chicago fur- 

 niture market stated that buying on the market was quite encour- 

 aging. They are looking for the sales at the Evansville marked 

 in September to be heavier than at the market held last spring. 

 An effort will be made this fall to get a larger number of out of 

 town manufacturers to bring their exhibits to Evansville. John 

 C. Keller, secretary and traffic manager of the Evansville Furniture 

 Manufacturers' Association, is planning to send out more than 

 20,000 invitations to the retail dealers in all parts of the United 

 States and in Canada, Cuba, Mexico and Porto Rico. 



Laminated Furniture Framing 



There is a steadily and somewhat rapidly growing practice of 

 making legs, posts and other framed parts of furniture out of lamin- 

 ated wood, where the dimensions call for something that cannot 

 be made out of ordinary lumber stock. The high cost and the 

 difficulties of seasoning and getting clear stock out of thick flitches 

 has helped to increase this practice of making laminated fram- 

 ing parts. Another factor which has contributed to it, is the ex- 

 periments of the Forest Products Laboratory vifhich have demon- 

 strated the qualities of laminated work and have given factory 

 managers something official and positive to work on. 



Laminated framing parts are on the whole stiffer and better 

 from a purely mechanical standpoint than solid pieces of wood, 

 provided, of course, that they are properly jointed and glued. 

 About the only objection to them is that the joints show and the 

 idea of built up work is sometimes objected to by the furniture 

 trade on perhaps somewhat the same ground that in the earlier 

 days they objected to veneering. 



Careful matching and joining and getting similarity of texture in 

 the wood will help to obscure the joints. And often laminated 

 frame parts are made and pass freely as if they were solid. At 

 other times they show^ very plainly. One can see in the show 

 windows of household and office furniture stores many examples 

 of laminated legs and posts, some made of only two pieces glued 

 together, some three, some four and even more. And among 

 the showings there are instances where one feels like the con- 

 trasting appearance in the exposed edge of the lamination is 

 objectionable. 



On the whole, though, lan^inated wood work has demonstrated 

 its qualities and will stay with us. The final result w^ill likely be 

 quite a practice of building up laminated posts and frame parts, 

 then facing them with veneer. This will furnish both the struc- 

 tural qualities and the face appearance and it should lead to more 

 consistent harmony between the frame parts and the so called face 

 parts of furniture. 



Veneer Machine Lengths 



There are many different ideas for the machinery trade to 

 cater to in the matter of size and length for veneer machines. 

 The logical tendency of the times should be tow^ard a more 

 extensive use of smaller and shorter machines to get a better 

 clean up of timber. Yet, while we have development of this 

 kind, we have also new machines being made that will cut up 

 to I feet in length. And for years back it was considered that a 

 machine which would cut 7 foot stock, about the longest stock 

 used in door making, was a mammoth machine. But now^ we have 

 them that will cut up to 10 foot, that is, they will take a block a 

 few inches more than 100 feet long so as to cut veneer which 

 will trim to 1 feet. 



