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Hardwood Record — Veneer & Panel Section 



March 25. 1919 



r«IAC H I t4€S 



English Brown Oak Panels 



The dining room of the White House, Washington, is paneled 

 with English brown oak. The color of this wood is due to a 

 microscopic fungus that permeates the cells of the wood. It is 

 very handsome and is quite expensive. The best brown oak that 

 grows in England is usually exported to America, where it is 

 converted into veneer. 



SINCE 1852, we have probably equipped 

 more veneer machines than any other 

 concern in the world. Sixty-seven years of 

 specialization ought to be a safe guide, if 

 you need veneer equipment of ANY kind, 

 from saws, lathes and slicers — to grinders, 

 clippers, driers, etc. Printed matter will be 

 sent immediately on request embracing 

 your every requirement. 



WRITE FOR IT. 



The Coe Manufacturing Co. 



PAINESVILLE, O. 



North Wisconsin 



IRON-RANGE 

 HARDWOODS 



The finest and most l)caiitifiil 

 Birch, Oak, Basswood, Ash and 

 Ehn grown in this country. 



We use this quality stock e.xclusively for our: 

 ROTARY CUT LOG RUN 

 ROTARY CUT DOOR STOCK 

 ROTARY CUT FURNITURE 

 ROTARY CUT PIANO STOCK 



VENEERS 



ROTARY CUT HOOPS AND LINERS 

 THIN LUMBER SPECIALISTS 



REMEMBER we are specialists in 



LOG RUN VENEERS 



any thickness, any lengths up to 98 in. 

 Let Us Figjire en Your Requirements 



Kiel Woodenware Co. 



KIEL WISCONSIN MELLEN 



Limiting Size of Panels 



The panels of extraordinary size which were called for in the 

 manufacture of certain types of airplanes and sea sleds were 

 one of the articles made for war which are not likely to find a 

 demand in peace. Panels of extra size do not seem to be in gen- 

 eral demand where smaller panels will do as w^ell. A counter top 

 for store use is about the largest surface to be covered with veneer 

 in the woodworking factory; and it is not necessary to have counter 

 tops ali in one piece. The art of splicing and joining is well 

 understood. It therefore appears probable that the large veneer 

 panels called for in some of the w^ar contracts will pass out of 

 use because nobody needs them. Special machinery for making 

 very large panels would soon have put in an appearance had the 

 demand continued. 



War Woods for Peace Purposes 



Many a man is now puzzling his brain over the problem of what 

 to do with war material left on his hands by the abrupt ending of 

 the w^ar. One company \\'as left with veneer panels on its hands, 

 and has tried the experiment of converting them into poker chips 

 and overcoat buttons. The panels were intended for aiiplanes and 

 automobile bodies, and are all three-ply, the heavier having been 

 meant for auto bodies. It has been customary to make the chips 

 and the buttons of solid w^ood, the product of a turning lathe. 

 Paper birch has been usually preferred. It can be readily under- 

 stood that veneer buttons, usually called "button molds," may pos- 

 sess some advantage over solid wood, but the cost might be a little 

 more for the veneer. 



Pegs with which the soles of coarse shoes and boots are fas- 

 tened on, are one of the products of the veneer mill; but it is a 

 special mill and special milling machinery is required. The nar- 

 row ribbons of wood, cut by rotary process to the proper thickness 

 of a peg, and as wide as the peg is long, are fed into another 

 machine which reduces them to pegs and at the same operation 

 drives them into the soles w^here they belong. That, however, is 

 only one of the processes by which pegs are made. The w^ood 

 for the veneer peg is usually paper birch. Formerly when pegs 

 were made chiefly by hand, sugar maple was the common ma- 

 terial. 



Persimmon is one of the valuable woods of the country, being 

 harder than any other wood of the United States in common use, 

 and stronger than most others; yet no record exists that one foot 

 of it has ever been made into veneer. The ordinary persimmon 

 products are such that veneer is unsuited to this manufacture. 

 The principal products are shuttles and golf clubs. The built-up 

 shuttle or the laminated golf head seem still to be in the future. 



When any one speaks of trees thousands of years old, ask for a 

 bill of particulars; insist on knowing where a tree of that age stood, 

 and when, and be sure to ask who counted the rings of growth and 

 made a record of the count, and where that record is. If that 

 policy is pursued, it will not take long to run to ground most of 

 the loose talk about trees that attained ages exceeding 2,000 yeare. 

 Trees of such gi-eat age may have lived, but it is pretty hard to find 

 out much about them, and it is specially difficult to make exact 

 locations of place, time, and witnesses. 



