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Hardwood Record — Veneer & Panel Section 



July 10, 1918 



The Superior 

 Figure and Color 



of "Louisville" Figured Red Gum 

 will stand discriminating comparison 

 of value and price. 



Our introduction to the trade of this 

 now well known and approved cabi- 

 net wood dates back to 1911. This 

 long experience and specializing — 

 from the selection of the trees in the 

 woods to the cutting of the veneers 

 — certainly qualifies us to serve your 

 requirements to best advantage — 

 choicest figured veneers at reasonable 

 prices. 



To enable you to select the character 

 of wood that is best suited to your 

 particular work, we recommend that 

 you permit us to submit for your in- 

 spection, full sized samples, which 

 are sent express prepaid. 



The demand for Figured Gum furni- 

 ture is sure to considerably increase 

 now that the Government is needing 

 all the Walnut and Mahogany timber 

 available. 



JJliy not investigate the 

 Figured Gum proposition? 



THE LOUISVILLE 

 VENEER MILLS 



INCOUrOKATEl) 



LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY 



of them as it is. Put the other in the dry kiln or drier, or 

 some place where it can dry out some more. After an 

 hour or so take it out and measure it with the piece you 

 did not dry and if you find it is smaller you can bet it 

 was not dry. Veneers will shrink a lot in drying. Most 

 of the shrinkage comes in the width, but some of it will 

 come in the length. Some woods will shrink more than 

 others and if you want to learn about it just try some and 

 keep the records. You will be surprised. The day after 

 1 found out about Mike using that moist cross banding I 

 mentioned it to a veneer drummer that happened along 

 and he told me that he had known instances of poplar 

 cross banding shrinking as much as two inches in a three- 

 foot piece. 



Well, Jim, you are good enough veneer man to see 

 what is going to happen if you have some panels 1 8 or 

 24 inches wide and you think the stock is dry, but it isnt 

 dry, when you glue it up. If it is possible for this veneer 

 to shrink even as little as an eighth of an inch by more 

 drying and this drying comes after it is in the panel, the 

 result is most apt to be a bad panel. It will show cracks, 

 or warp, or buckle, or pull away from the glue. Of 

 course, you aint apt to have much trouble on that score 

 because you redry all your veneers, but 1 thought Id tell 

 you what can happen if someone gets careless in a rush., 

 Already I had two cases of trouble here in three months 

 on account of carelessness. Once carelessness with glue 

 like I wrote when we mixed stale stuff with fresh glue 

 and this time with using veneers not dry enough. Jim, 

 as I go along from day to day the more I find that care- 

 lessness makes most of the trouble everywhere in life. 

 Your old friend, 



HEN. 

 P. S. 1 didn't say anything about Sue because I wrote 

 all but this ending out in North park in Chicago this 

 afternoon. Me and her was out there all day. She 

 helped me with some of the words. We had a lunch that 

 she fixed up and it was fine. She dont belong to the big 

 city any more than me. She lives out in Hazlehurst, 111. 

 She wrote her folks that I was her friend and they ast her 

 to bring me out some time. So we are going there for 

 Labor Day and the Sun. before. Maybe I will have some 

 news that will surprise you after that. 



John N. Roberts & Co., ' 

 Ind., who have been operatii 

 filed articles of incorporatii 

 and naming John N. Rober 

 and others. 



The Indiana Veneer and 

 started work on a large war. 

 will be used for storing ve 



,eer manufacturers of New Albany. 



listing a capital stock of $95,000, 

 Roy L. Pickerel, Harry S. Willard 



Comany, New Albany, Ind., has 

 '. building adjoining the plant. It 



The smallest veneer slicer is called a microtome, and it is 

 used to slice substances for viewing under the miscroscope. Wood 

 is only one of the materials which it reduces to very thin slices. 

 The thinnest sheet of veneer that the ordinary slicer will cut is 

 one-thousandth of an inch thick; but the micritome will cut slices 

 only one-fifth of that thickness. Wood is of such a porous nature 

 that a sheet less than a thousandth of an inch thick will fall to 

 pieces unless it is imbedded in gelatin before being sliced. 



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