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Hardwood Record — Veneer & Panel Section 



December 10, 1917 



TheDean - Spicker Co. 



Manufacturers of 



Oak— Mahogany— Walnut 



AND 



LUMBER 



22nd St. and So. Crawford Ave. 

 CHICAGO 



Made in Si. Louis by 



St.Louis Baskets Box Co. 



WE MANUFACTURE 



a complete line of 

 Built-up Stock in most 

 any size or thickness, 

 including Walnut, Ma- 

 hoeanv. Quartered 



and Plain Oak. Ash, 

 Cum. Plain or Figured 

 Birch, Yellow Pine, 

 S y c a m ore, Cotton- 

 wood, etc. 



the veneer sheet must go round and round from the beginning to 

 the end of the operation, and it is important that the log be of 

 regular form if it is to yield a high percentage of merchantable 



Veneer Notes 



At Conway, S. C, the Veneer Manufacturing Company has been 

 incorporated to manufacture panels and box shooks. 



The Mississippi Veneer Company has been incorporated at 

 Lexington, Ky., with a capital stock of $50,000. 



An involuntary petition in bankruptcy has been filed by the 

 Kansas City Column & Panel Company, Kansas City, Mo. 



The Breece Handle Manufacturing Company of Portsmouth, O., 

 which operated a handle factory at Kenova, W. Va., has been 

 reorganized at the latter place and will be known as the Breece 

 Veneer Company. The company is incorporated at $100,000, 

 the officers being: J. T. Breece of Portsmouth, president; C. O. 

 Breece, Portsmouth, vice-president, and H. T. Breece of Kenova, 

 secretary and treasurer. In addition to these, the incorporators 

 are: M. H. Shumway, J. M. Gharam and W. B. Anderson of 

 Portsmouth. 



The Kenova handle factory will be used by the new concern, 

 in which high-grade veneers will be manufactured. 



More veneer is made from red gum than from any other two 

 woods, and Arkansas leads all other states in gurt -eneer, though 

 twenty states contribute to the supply. 



The quantity of white oak manufactured into veneer is four-fold 

 greater than red oak. The largest production of white oak veneer 

 is credited to Ohio, with Tennessee second. Wisconsin leads in 

 red oak veneer. 



Ten or more imported woods are listed as veneer material in 

 this country, but more is made from mahogany than from all other 

 foreign woods combined. Spanish cedar stands second. Practi- 

 cally the whole of the Spanish cedar veneer is w^orked into cigar 

 boxes. The veneers of ebony, rosewood, satinwood and Circassian 

 walnut do not aggregate one-half as much as is cut from Spanish 

 cedar alone. 



The stock aawer in many a factory can make of himself either the 

 most valuable or the most expensive workman in the place. 



Grinding planer knives so hard that the edge is blued from the 

 heat is a splendid way to get them back at an early date. Don 't 

 do it. It is a detriment to the steel, and when the edge crumbles, as it 

 surely will, the smoothness of the stock will crumble with it. 



The fact that the enterprising mill manager is never thoroughly 

 satisfied with the best skilled employe, is a spur to greater effort 

 and progress, and to that extent may be regarded as useful, yet 

 it may get hard on the nerves and, occasionally, the tired workman 

 may feel that he has a full measure of appreciation and could enjoy 

 resting on his laurels for a minute. 



Inspecting stock as it goes from the mill has a great deal to do with 

 the reputation of a mill. A good inspector is a rarebit. The man 

 taking stuff from a machine should turn every board over to see if 

 both sides are perfectly cut and both ends of matched stuff cut clean 

 and straight. A tight guideblock makes a nick on the first end and 

 a loose one on the last end, and a loose pressurebar on the lower knife 

 makes rough work, variable thicknesses, and a nick the whole width 

 of the board when going out. A loose top bar makes wavy and uneven 

 thicknesses of anything. The immediate report of the inspector 

 should correct these faults. 



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