Hardwood Record — Veneer & Panel Section 



July 10 1917 



MAHOGANY 



We have in our yard in San Francisco 



ready for IMMEDIATE shipment 



the following, 



Guatemalan Hard Mahogany Lumber 



FIRSTS AND SECONDS 



160,000' .... 4/4 4,000' ... 10/4 



18,000'.... 6/4 8,000'... 12/4 



6,000'.... 8/4 2,000' ... 16/4 



NO. 1 AND 2 COMMON 

 50,000' 4/4 to 8/4 



Write us /or prices 



We also have: 



Cenezero— 80,000' 4/4 to 8/4 



Hawaiian Koa— 25,000' 4/4 



FIRSTS AND SECONDS 



WHITE BROTHERS 



5th & Brsuinan Sts. San Francisco 



Cincinnati Veneer Company Fire 



Origin of a fire which caused $50,000 damage at the Cincinnati 

 Veneer Company's plant, West Sixth and Front streets, Cincinnati, 

 recently, is unascertained. The fire started in a yard which is 

 adjacent to the saw and planing mill. Here the damage was the 

 heaviest. 



George Unnewehr, president of the company, said the damage 

 to machinery would be heavier than to material and buildings. 

 Thousands of feet of lumber left the plant last week. All the 

 damage is covered by insurance. 



Fire Chief Houston attributes the flames to spontaneous com- 

 bustion. The lumber used at the plant is thin as tissue paper, and 

 offered excellent fuel for the flames. 



Is Panel Making Too Much Standardized? 



It was suggested the other day by an advertising expert who 

 also knows woodworking pretty well, that the manufacturers of 

 furniture and similar articles were passing up one of the big- 

 gest merchandising possibilities — the chance for a real talking 

 point in not working out some plan of veneered panel manufac- 

 ture that w^ould meet the test of service and yet have the added 

 quality of being different. In the essentials all panels are made 

 the same and the finished product is divided into two classes — 

 those w^hich stay put and those which do not. But the panel 

 maker can see no basic fault with his type of panel if it fails to 

 stand up. He sees (sometimes) the immediate cause, w^hereas 

 if he created a new style of glue joint or other feature that he knew 

 would hold he not only would have a good panel but one with a 

 talking point that would put him miles ahead of his competitors. 



Of course our advertising man's suggestion was only a sug- 

 gestion — he didn't offer any advice as to how to make the panel 

 changes. But if the idea could be applied it would undoubtedly 

 help in broadening the use of veneered wood and in overcoming 

 the prejudice against that kind of article. 



All Three of Us Will Be Benefited if 



Organize Illinois Walnut Lumber Company 



W. L. Fletcher of East St. Louis, who has been living in Kansas 

 City, has returned to his old home and has organized the Illinois 

 Walnut Lumber Company with his son, H. L. Fletcher, and Chas. 

 S. Smith. The company has purchased the plant of the East St. 

 Louis Walnut Lumber Company, but not the stock. Mr. Fletcher 

 and Mr. Smith were connected w^ith the latter company for many 

 years and during that time the plant turned out many thousands 

 of gunstocks for the United States army and nearly all the armies 

 of Europe. A few months before the starting of the present war, 

 Mr, Fletcher went to Europe on a summons by cable and it is said, 

 that as a result of that trip, his company received a large order 

 from the German government. The company was already supply- 

 ing the English and other armies. 



Mr. Smith says that the new company did not expect to make 

 gunstocks, but would supply walnut lumber for a general line of 

 manufactures. 



Cut-offs From Oak Flitches 



One of the common problems of the millman who makes oak flitches 

 for veneer is what to do with the cut-offs, the ends and short sections 

 cut off here and there to take out a defect and clear a flitch. These 

 vary in width from 6 or 8 inches to 16 and in length from 2 feet to 6. 



Tliey are good quartered stock aside from whatever defects causes 

 the cutting off, and they contain too much good material to go to 

 waste. The problem is what to cut them into and how to work them 

 to realize the most for them. 



Dimension stock offers one general line, and by dimension stock is 

 meant anything from small squares for chair rungs up to heavier 

 dimensions for wagon stock. Of course the short length limits the 

 |iossibilities for conversion into dimension stock, but generally some- 

 thing worth while in this line can be made with nothing more in the 

 way of additional equipment than a rip saw and a crosscut. 



An 'idea that persistently suggests itself in connection with these 

 shorts is that of converting them into tight barrel heading. Good 

 tight barrel heading must be made quartering and it ranges in length 

 from 18 inches to 3 feet and in thickness from % to 2 inches, being 

 mostly 1 and 1% inches. Indications are we will have a fairly good 

 market for barrel heading and this line of work should offer some 

 possibilities. 



To cut heading would call for a heading saw and it is doubtful if 

 in any one mill will have enough shorts from veneer flitches to justify 

 a heading saw. With such a saw, however, there is an opportunity to 

 work up short pieces of logs not only in oak but in other timber such 

 as gum and poplar and make heading or box shooks out of them. To 

 put in a heading saw just to cut the shorts from the flitches would not 

 be justified, but if one can develop enough other business to employ 

 such a rig steadily this should be one good solution of the problem. 



It is recognized as beneficial for the country sawmill man to make 

 occasional visits to see where and how his product is used. It is a 

 good educational idea that is carried out to some extent, but not 

 enough. There are, for example, many kicks on lumber that might 

 be avoided considerably if the millman or the planer foreman could 

 spend more time around the yards where his stock is sold at retail, 

 or in the buildings where the carpenters are using it. 



The planing mill furniture factory or other woodworking plant 

 that is now well stocked up on lumber has cause for congratulation, 

 for prices are advancing right along, especially on southern pine, and 

 there is a general feeling that they will never go so low again as 

 they have been the past summer. 



Every saw table shoidd be made to adjust to height, preferably 

 to raise at both ends, so as to be always level, but to raise at one 

 end, anyway. When raising at both ends the work is always uji level 

 and square with the operator. It is not only unpleasant, but hard 

 and inconvenient for a sawyer to reach up to do some little bit 

 of work which must Ixi done with a small cut and on top of the 

 saw. 



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