October 10, 1918 



Hardwood Record — Veneer & Panel Section 



to a gallon of spirits. Put the shellac on as quick as you 

 call and don't do much brushing, because if you do you 

 will leave brush marks, or ridj^es, and then you have 

 to take time to sand them out. When the goods are sq 

 fixtd up they must not get too dry before they are again 

 rubbed, or the same trouble will happen and the work 

 will have to be done over again. Gee, Jim. these hos- 

 pital jobs are bad, but I supose we can't help having a 

 few cripples. 



Well, I can see more troubles coming my way. Some 

 guy said that life was first one damn thing then another 

 on top of it. I'm just about getting this place so they 

 can use animal glue that they know something about 

 when the boss decides to use some kind of stuff called 

 vegetable glue that we don't know nothing about. He 

 came out about three weeks ago and asked me what 1 

 knew about vegetable glue and 1 told him I knew nothing 

 and I wasn't hunting trouble. 1 told him I had read a 

 little about it in the trade papers and seen some adver- 

 tisements, but I thought it was hard enough to make 

 animal glue go right without monkeying with some new- 

 fangled stuff. He told me lots of places are using it and 

 it don't cost near so much as animal glue and he is going 

 to look into it. Well, that was three weeks ago and I 

 thought it had been passed up, when today in comes the 

 boss with a vegetable glue drummer. 



I'll say this for the guy, he acted like he knew what he 

 was talking about. When you start on the vegetable 

 glue you have to have a special outfit because the glue is 

 so different from animal glue that you can't mix it in the 

 same kettles and you can't use it in the same spreader, 

 ind the company this guy works for makes the machines 

 ds well as the glue. Only they don't sell the machines. 

 They rent them to the concern that is going to use the 

 '»'ue with the understanding that no other glue than that 

 sold by the company is used on the machine. 



Weil, this drummer looked all over the veneer room 

 and said we had plenty of head room to put the mixers 

 on a platform and have the whole outfit on the same 

 floor. It seems that they put the mixers up over the 

 spreader because this glue mix is so thick that it has to 

 run to the spreader through a pipe and you can't draw it 

 from the tank in a pail the way you can the animal glue. 

 1 made some crack about it must be fine stuff to work if 

 you couldn't draw it off in a pail, and the guy says: 

 "Don't you worry, old man; by the time you have this 

 glue a month you can't be hired to use animal glue again." 

 I didn't say a word, but 1 thought that by the time it was 

 t.hf.re a month 1 couldn't be hired to use any glue because 

 I'd be in a daffy house. 



But 1 felt easy when I heard the plan was to set up 

 the new outfit in such a way that it would not interfere 

 with the old one so that we could try the new one and 

 after we try it I bet 4 7 cents to a hole in a doughnut it 

 goes out quicker than it comes. Of course, if it is any- 

 thing at all like the guy claims it will be all right, but it 

 don't sound reasonable. 



Here's some of the things this new glue is supposed to 



All Three of Us Will Be Benefited if Y. 



Are you making, or 

 are you consider- 

 ing the making of ^J 

 airplane or sea- [ 

 plane parts wKere • 



Spanish 



Cedar 

 Mexican ' i^'^ter 

 Mahogany 



African 

 Mahogany 



will be used ? 



We have the logs — ■ 



We have a moaern veneer 

 and sawmill — 



We are experienced in man- 

 ufacturing such material. 



Conclusion : You can entrust to us 

 your orders and be sure of delivery 



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Astoria Veneer Mills 

 & Dock Company 



Plant and Yard, Long Island City, N. Y. 

 General Offices. 347 Madison Ave., N. Y. 



Mention HARDWOOD RECORD 



