July 10, 



Hardwood Record — Veneer & Panel Section 



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Dry Veneer and Good Glue Elssential 



Auk, 1'), I'M?. 

 Friend Jim, 



I was glad to get your letter and hear that you and 

 Steve Murray is friends again and that the old man thinks 

 may be theres something in the argument about not laying 

 the faces and cross banding at the same time on five ply 

 work. You aint had time yet to prove it becaws the stuff 

 you laid since 1 wrote aint got to the rubbers yet. but 

 when it does you will find it o k. Any time you think 

 that I can help you out, Jim. you know the address. 



You want to know how to find out more about veneer 

 room work. Well jim you got to use your bean all the 

 time. Any time trouble comes up any where in the works 

 that you hear about you want to help find out what was 

 at the bottom of it. no matter if it is in the finishing room 

 or some place else. And every time a drummer comes 

 along just listen to what hes got to say. He might never 

 say anything that has to do with your job. Then again 

 he might say a whole lot. If you work it right you can 

 get a lot out of a feller that sells glue or veneers or 

 any thing. Those drummer birds fly in lots of different 

 fields and pick up lots of good things and they are bound 



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Again, theres a lot of trade papers that come to the 

 office every month. Get hold of some of them and read 

 them. They have lots of good stuff. 1 subscribe to some 

 of them myself because 1 like to have them to look over 

 and see how other fellers does things. 



Well Jim, things is mostly going good on my job, but 

 the other week we had some trouble with blisters and 

 veneers pealing. It wasent because of bad glue like 1 

 wrote you before, but nobody seemed to know what the 

 trouble was. Ail the glue men said they done things 

 just the same all the time. But Jim. I say every time you 

 have trouble you got to get to the bottom of it so the 

 same thing wont happen agin. So I began digging around 

 and I got Mike Gibbons off to one side and told him 1 

 thought somehow he got hold of some stock that wasent 

 dry. Mike is head glue man an next to me and he acted 

 like a sheep but admited that one day there was a rush 

 order and they had to use a bunch of cross banding that 

 had just been unloaded from a new lot. He said he 

 thought it was dry enough caws it was supposed to be 

 dried at the mills. Well 1 got a little peevish and balled 

 I m out. Told him if some one cracked his head it 

 vouldnt do no harm but would rid the world of one 

 numskull. He knowed he done wrong, caws that wet 

 crossing made all the trouble and because a guy got 

 nervus over a rush job and done a thing he oughtent to, 

 the rush job is going to be way behind and every one 

 will catch more or less hell. 



Jim, you will find as you go along that more trouble 

 comes in veneer work from using stock that is not dried 

 right than from bad glue or any other thing. Take that 

 cross banding. It may have been dried right at the mill, 

 but we had a lot of rainy weather while it was on the way 

 to us and it was a small shipment and did not come in a 

 full car. The freight guys what handled it likely thought 

 a little rain wouldnt hurt wood like that, or if they 

 thought at all didnt care a cuss and let it get wet 

 while changing from one car to another at places where 

 iliey make changes to keep cars from being almost empty 

 hen they pull them away. Of course, Mike hadn't an 

 ivvlul lot of stuff, and, being in a hurry, took a chance, 

 iven though he wasn't supposed to use it until it had been 

 |)ut through the redrier. He was fooled, but he ought to 

 now better next time. 



Lots of people can get fooled as to how dry veneer is, 

 iiid think it is dry when it isnt. You can try it yourself 

 ^ome time by taking two sheets of veneer that seem to 

 l)e dry. Make them the same size, of course. Leave one 



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