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Hardwood Record — Veneer & Panel Section 



March 10, 1918 



30 YEARS' 

 EXPERIENCE 



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ESTABLISHED 1888 



When you can obtain 

 Veneered Tops and 

 Panels, at reasonable 

 prices — with prompt 

 shipments assured — 

 from a manufacturer 

 backed by these many 

 years of experience, why 

 take any chances on the 

 "cheap" stock offered? 

 The reason for the low^ 

 price is necessarily re- 

 flected in the quality. 



This "Price First" stock may 

 answer for some purposes, but 

 certainly can not give satisfac- 

 tion in first-class cabinet work. 

 Then, again, the concern with 

 the low price is invariably, for 

 this reason only, far behind or- 

 ders and is very slow and un- 

 certain in deliveries. 



LOUISVILLE 

 TOPS AND PANELS 



are "made right" to "stay right." Our prices are 

 only reasonable for the character of stock we fur- 

 nish, and are no higher than other reputable manu- 

 facturers'. Why not let us figure on your next 

 specifications? 



IT MAY BE THAT WE CAN GIVE 

 YOU BETTER SERVICE THAN 

 YOUR PRESENT CONNECTION 



The Louisville 



Ve 



neer 



Mill 



INCORPORATED 



Also Manufacturers of American Walnut Veneers 



Louisville 



Kentucky 



All Three of Us Will be Benefited 



The Asiatic oak is soft and works well, but it lacks the 

 characteristic figure of .some of our native oak. 



A previous article in this section of Hardwood Record 

 dealt with mahogany as a veneer wood in this count-y, 

 and its further discussion may be omitted here. This 

 leaves Spanish cedar, Circassian walnut, satinwood, rose- 

 wood, and ebony as the foreign veneer woods that go to 

 mills in this country. 



Circassian Walnut 



Less Circassian walnut is made into veneer today than 

 at the time the above figures were compiled, which was 

 a few years ago. Statistics of the veneer industry are 

 not compiled very often. This walnut comes from the 

 shores of the Black and Caspian seas, and this region has 

 had little commerce with the outside world since the be- 

 ginning of the war. About all the walnut that has been 

 made into veneer since then has been cut from logs in 

 storage at the beginning of hostilities. So far as America 

 is concerned, it has few left, and the production of Cir- 

 cassian walnut veneer the present year may be expected 

 to be very small. 



This is the same tree that bears the "English" walnuts 

 found in the stores; but the trees which bear the nuts 

 have been planted in Europe and America. Large num- 

 bers of them are growing in California, and in course of 

 time their trunks may be cut for veneer; but that time 

 will not come soon, for the trees must be quite old before 

 the wood becomes finely figured, and in some localities 

 it never does. Most of the Circassian walnut logs from 

 Russia and Turkey are cut in old walnut orchards v/hich 

 were planted from one hundred to three hundred years 

 ago. They have ceased to be profitable as nut bearers, 

 on account of age, and are sold as logs. 



Satinwood 



Satinw^ood is not an important source of veneer in 

 this country, as only 1 5,000 feet of logs are demanded 

 yearly. The logs are seldom more than twelve inches 

 in diameter. The wood is yellow and very hard and 

 heavy. It resembles boxwood of which wooden rollers 

 of skates are made. The wood's value does not depend 

 on figure, for it has none. 



The supply comes from the East Indies and the West 

 Indies, but the trees in the widely separated regions are 

 not believed to be identical, though much alike. It is 

 probable that the supply reaching the United States comes 

 from the West Indies, chiefly Nassau and neighboring 

 islands east of Florida. A similar tree grovk's in Florida, 

 and is found principally in the Marquesas keys and Boca 

 Chica keys. In Florida it is commonly called yellow 

 wood. Its family (the rue family) has several repre- 

 sentatives among the trees of this country. The wood is 

 used both in the solid and veneer. As solid, its chief 

 demand comes from makers of brush backs. As veneer 

 it is made into small articles of furniture and into musical 

 instruments. When the vsfood is fresh it has a disagree- 

 able odor and a bitter taste, but these largely disappear 

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