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well as a limited amount of Circassian walnut, vermilion, Spanish cedar, 

 teak, rosewood, and other expensive woods are sawed into veneers which 

 bring exceptionally high prices as compared with the rotary cut veneers. 

 Most of the high-priced foreign woods which do not show an especially 

 pleasing grain on the quarter are cut, however, by the rotary method, 

 by using a stay log for flitches, crotches, burls, etc. About 10,000 sq. ft. 

 of sawed veneer ^V in. in thickness can be cut from 1000 bd. ft. of flitch 

 material. 



In the manufacturing process flitches are usually used, and they are 

 preferred in the green state. No preliminary steaming or boiling is prac- 



FIG. 20. Making sawed veneers. Many of the finest veneers are made by this method. 



ticed to prepare the flitches for sawing. The flitches are either cut at 

 the veneer mill or purchased from some sawmill, and kept in a covered 

 shed preparatory to manufacture to prevent undue checking. As 

 wanted, they are conveyed to the mill and mounted on a stay log by screw 

 dogs on a vertical saw carriage. In the most up-to-date mills, the feed is 

 automatic, the carriage being set up nearer the saw after each cut, to 

 correspond with the desired thickness of veneer. The sawed sheets fall 

 on the platform and are stacked up in the same position as they were 

 found in the flitch. They are kept together and sold in this way the same 



