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Heu-dwood Record — Veneer & Panel Section 



November 10. 1917 



No use to 



Shop Around 



With present high freight 

 rates and slow movement 

 of local shipments, it is 

 decidedly advantageous to 

 concentrate your buying to 

 make up carload lots. We 

 manufacture in \'eneers: 



American Walnut 



Half Round and Sliced 



Figured Red Gum 

 Quartered White Oak 



Sawed and Sliced 



Mahogany 



Rotary Poplar and Gum 



Can supply your entire ve- 

 neer requirements, shipping 

 in carload, saving time and 

 monev. 



Special attention is directed to 

 choice line of American Walnut 

 Veneers just cut. Would be 

 pleased to submit full size sam- 

 ples. Prices right. 



The Louisville Veneer Mills 



operating Rotary .Machines, Saws, Slicers 



Louisville Kentucky 



All Thre« of Us ^lU B« Benefited 



Letters from a Panel User 



The Different Stains and Best Methods of Applying Them 



Monroe. Mich., Oct. 31. In some panel factories little atten- 

 tion is given to what the finished article may look like. Some 

 panel manufacturers (very few in number, though, 1 am glad to 

 state) pay little or no attention to the proper matching of veneers. 

 Door combinations do not look very badly when the goods are in 

 the white, but after finished, this carelessness may result in the 

 loss of the sale of furniture, pianos, or wherever the panels have 

 been used. 



It is time the panel manufacturer co-operated with building 

 contractors requiring his class of goods, and, it will be to every 

 panel maker's interest to get some information on wood finishing. 

 The largest and most progressive manufacturers of panels are 

 doing this and one will find among them men having a broad 

 knowledge of this science; but smaller manufacturers do not seem 

 to appreciate the importance of this information. It is for the 

 benefit of the man who does not know, that I will from time to 

 time prepare letters and convey only such information as will be 

 necessary for the guidance of the panel maker. 



Good finishing begins in the panel factories and cabinet rooms. 

 Lumber checks must be filled with glue or the so-called furniture 

 cement (vvhkih is nothing more than colored shellac). If panels 

 have been properly made, are of good material, and if the other 

 w^oodwork has been well selected, as to color, etc., little trouble 

 in finishing will usually be experienced. However, when the 

 veneer man matches a piece of red and a piece of white oak, the 

 reader can very readily imagine the troubles of the finisher to get 

 uniform color throughout the entire piece, be it furniture, pianos, 

 doors, or anything else. 



Sunken glue joints constitute an unwelcome trouble which 

 looms up frequently in finished work. We are forever preaching 

 the importance of the glue drying before machining the stock. 

 The only reason for sunken joints is because the stock was 

 machined before the joints had a chance to dry. 



We know that stains are employed for the purpose of changing 

 color. For this purpose we employ either water, oil, or spirit 

 stains. A water stain is usually employed when finishing mahog- 

 any, birch, walnut, etc., and oil stains are applied on oaks, espe- 

 cially golden oak. Spirit stains are not very popular for the 

 reason that they will not hold their color so well as oil and water. 

 The essential consideration in a stain is that it must be absolutely 

 soluble, and by soluble w^e mean that the color-giving product is 

 completely visible in a liquid that gives up its physical form to 

 become a part and portion of the liquid in which it is to be dis- 

 solved. 



Stain should always be a clear solution, and if this is not the 

 case, it may be due to impurity of the material or because it was 

 not properly dissolved. Water stains are usually made by putting 

 into solution color-giving products vk*ith the design of having this 

 color permanent and uniform. 



The following essential properties are inherent in a good stain: 

 First, the material must be in a state of solution, that is, free from 

 suspended or partially suspended matter. Secondly, the stain 

 should contain little or no colloidal or jelly-like substance, more 

 particularly of the character of glue, size, gum, starch, etc. 

 Thirdly, the stain may or may not undergo any change after 

 application, but if a change be intended, it should take place at 

 the time or immediately after being applied, but such change 

 must be final. 



It is true that the prices of stain materials are going higher, and 

 as a result the cost of production is beitig affected. We are com- 

 pelled to "pay the fiddler." Many are partly offsetting this 

 enormous advance by improved methods, thereby saving con- 

 siderable labor. The two best labor saving methods known are 

 spraying the stock or dipping. Nearly every woodworking plant 

 today has spraying machines. 



The dipping method is very economical as far as labor is con- 

 cerned, but there is difficulty in keeping the stain of uniform 



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