Augu.i 10. 1918 



Hardwood Record — Veneer & 1^ 



Secti 



world's timber supply and the increased raids on our 

 forests for paper pulp and other materials, which civiliza- 

 tion demands. 



Russia supplied us with lar^c quantities of plywood 

 before the war. being favorably situated as regards raw 

 material and cheap labor. There are indications, how- 

 ever, that the center of supply may revert to the other 

 side of the Atlantic and that we may expect America, 

 will cater for the British market in competition with 

 Ru.ssia when business resumes its normal course. 



Plywood From America 



Wc undrr5(and, ><iys the London Timber Trade Journal, that 

 the Siberian & General Trading Comp.iny. Ltd.. of 3 3 Biihops- 

 gate. have made arrangements for large supplies of plywood from 

 the United States, and that they will be receiving from time to 

 time consignments of gum. poplar, ash. etc.. of best manufacture, 

 in addition to supplies from Russia, which they hope to bring over. 



Wooden Picnic Plates 



One of the important products of veneer is the picnic or pie 

 plate. It is made from rotary cut veneer, usually of beech, birch, 

 maple, or gum. The sheet of wood is cut into pieces of circular 

 form, each large enough for one plate. It is steamed and pressed 

 until it takes the desired form, and after being dried it holds its 

 shape unless it becomes wet. !f that happens, the plate flattens 

 out and again becomes simply a circular piece of veneer. 



The product is generally classed as woodenware. Plates of 

 that kind are made in large numbers, because no plate is expected 

 to be used a second time. When it has served its purpose once, 

 either as a picnic platter or as a pie plate where pies are kept for 

 sale, it is thrown away. 



The Smallest Wooden Article 



About the smallest article of wood, formed by machinery ac- 

 cording to pattern and put on the market in considerable quan- 

 tities, is the collar button used by laundries in shirts sent back to 



customers, and by merchants in ready-made shirts di; 

 the trade. The shoe peg may be as small, but it is 



The buttons are of hardwo 

 birch than of any other one w 

 lathe, but they pass through ! 

 finished. As a last step, they 

 sake of appearance. At any 

 at some stage in the process of 



These small buttons are not 

 too small for that and not strong enough. Thei 

 fulness covers the interval from the time the gai 



ibuted to 

 ss highly 



— perhaps more are of paper 

 d. They are the product of a 

 eral processes before they are 

 lay be painted or dyed for the 

 te, they are smoothly polished 



itended to be worn. They are 

 eriod of use- 

 nt leaves the 



manufacturer until it 

 the button from the fr 

 its place a pearl or g 

 pin tray on the dress 



aches the f^) 



: buttonhole 



stud, throv 



and about 



a! purchaser. He 

 af the new shirt and puts in 

 5 the wooden button in the 

 nee in so often the tray is 



nptied in the waste basket. 



The relationship between the veneer saw and the resaw is 

 pretty close, but there are a number of differences. The former 

 cuts veneer only, while the resaw produces a stock of various 



It is said that some of the tea boxes that come from China 

 filled with tea are made of thin birch cut in Maine. It formerly 

 went to China by way of Scotland where the stock was made 

 into box shooks. The Chinese put the colored paper and hiero- 

 glyphics on the boxes, pack the tea. and ship back to us, 

 and we suppose we are receiving Chinese wood as well as Chi- 



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