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hardwood Record — Veneer & Panel Section 



Novpinbor 10, rjlT 



PERKINS 



GLUE 

 COMPANY 



SOLE MANUFACTURERS 

 AND SELLING AGENTS 



PERKINS 

 Vegetable Veneer Glue 



(PATENTED JCI.Y 2. 1912) 



805 J. M. S. BUILDING 

 SOUTH BEND, INDIANA 



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strength. Another peculiarity of these stains is that on hard- 

 wood the color will exhaust proportionately quicker than on 

 soft wood. Unless care is exercised in applying the dipping 

 method, and the stain is wiped when on the running board, un- 

 .sightly runs will be in evidence. 



Of course, many manufacturers do not like to use water stains, 

 for they will raise the grain and cause the wood to swell; never- 

 theless, we can not get away from the fact that the water stain 

 is by far the most transparent and gives best results. Spirit stains 

 will raise the grain but will not affect the glue or veneers. For 

 this reason they are used to a limited extent, but they are open 

 to the objection that most of them lack permanence and may fade. 



Oil stains, soluble in turpentine, naphtha, benzole, and other oil 

 solvents, do not raise the grain and will not soften the glue nor 

 cause the wood to swell. An objection, however, is that some 

 of the oil stain may fade. 



There are many wrangles between the finishing room and 

 veneering department. Some panel manufacturers have argued 

 that if the veneer could be stained before being applied, this 

 would eliminate blisters and other troubles, but 1 want to say 

 frankly that this impression is wrong. How can one keep the 

 veneer perfectly clean in veneering? There is more or less glue 

 that oozes out of the pores of thin veneers, and if stained before 

 veneering this blotches the work terribly, or, if these blotches and 

 glue spots are removed in sanding, you may have uneven color. 

 There is nothing to be gained by this method and 1 would suggest 

 to the manufacturer having this in mind to forget it. If a good 

 quality of glue has been used, the stock thoroughly dried before 

 veneering and the men doing this work understand their business 

 and lay the veneer properly, no trouble will be experienced and 

 the work will stand up. 



Absolute uniform results cannot be produced except under 

 uniform conditions. The finisher must make his stains uniform. 

 He cannot change his stains to suit every Tom, Dick and Harry, 

 and even if he could, it would be unsatisfactory to do so. 



A. T. DEINZER. 



Made in St. Louis by 



StLouis Basket & Box Co 



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Five-Ply Millwork 



Practices followed by the best planing mills and door factories 

 of the country indicate that much of the veneered millwcrk of 

 the future is to be in five-ply. Work of that kind is very con- 

 spicuous in paneling for show windows, and the results obtained 

 are so satisfactory that one may almost read the signs as point- 

 ing surely to five-ply paneling as a standard for nearly all interior 

 work. The five-ply panel is the best in door work where large 

 panels are used. 



The planing mill industry has come to this conclusion some- 

 what reluctantly. For the smaller panels, the typical five and six 

 cross panel door, three-ply, does very well, and even two-ply can 

 be made to serve, but when making up single panel and two-panel 

 doors, experiences have taught that five-ply is the only safe 

 proposition. 



Many planing mill men have in the past made up three-ply 

 panels of this type, facing them with thin veneer, only to find 

 they had poor work on their hands. There has been so much 

 of this that the experienced members of the planing mill trade 

 have come to realize that the five-ply is the only thing for a big 

 panel. The panel is a good one even when all the veneer used is 

 comparatively thick; and when using thin face veneer, five-ply 

 is imperative, for there must be a cross banding under the face 

 veneer. 



The three-ply panel is something of the standard in the furni- 

 ture industry, but there is a noticeable tendency to a five-ply where 

 the heavier and finer work is involved. In the planing mill and 

 door business, however, the three-ply idea does not hold a very 

 conspicuous place. It will serve for the smaller panels which are 

 firmly held in the frame. However, it has here the question of 

 competition with two-ply, for often two-ply will serve as well as 

 three in the smaller panels made from native wood in thick veneer. 



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