Veneer is regarded as the most noble product of wood. You can sense the natural source in each and every veneer sheet.
Wood veneers are thin slices of natural wood, generally less than 0.6mm (1/40”) thick. This is still real wood but machinery and technology allow the material to be sliced thin, without waste instead of sawing it into thick boards.
How Wood Veneer is Processed
Wood veneer is processed at a mill much like a saw mill for hardwood lumber. Veneer logs, which comprise the top 1 to 2% of all harvested wood logs, first undergo a long period completely submerged in hot water “vats” to soften the wood fibers in preparation for slicing. After this long soak, the logs are prepped and readied for the slicing operation. There are different methods of slicing but all entail the process of a sharp knife cutting micro thin slices called leaves from the veneer logs. The slicing methods most commonly used are plain sawn or flat cut, rotary cut, rift cut and quarter sawn/cut, each producing a specific grain pattern. The freshly cut veneer leaves are put through a drying process and reassembled in bundles comprised of all the leaves from the same log in the same order they were sliced.
Cost Effective & Eco-Friendly Benefits of Real Wood Veneer
There are many benefits derived from using wood veneers instead of or in combination with traditional hardwood lumber. Using veneer is a more cost effective and efficient use of a natural resource, therefore more environmentally friendly. In comparison to a 2.5cm (1”) thick hardwood board, wood veneer cut at (6mm) 1/40” will yield 40 times more decorative surface area than the board. Because it’s a flexible wood, the physical properties of veneer make it possible to veneer surfaces that would be difficult or even impossible with hardwood lumber. The myriad choices of different wood veneers in varying cuts offer many more options than are usually available with hardwoods. The ability to stain and finish veneer to suit your individual taste is equally important and is no different than hardwoods. The result is a beautiful wood surface with depth, color, and unique character.
Reconstructed or engineered wood veneers
Along with natural hard and soft wood veneers, there are reconstructed or engineered wood veneers which are man-made but still natural wood cellulose fiber. These are made from renewable and highly sustainable forests and are often made to replicate exotic woods that are either endangered, limited, or very expensive to acquire.
Veneer forming allows us to design various designs, with respect and maximum economy, get in touch with the beauty of some exceptionally rare and precious wood species
Wood has a memory, history and charge. Every tree hides a story in its texture and each story is unique. Like people - outwardly similar in some features, you can divide them into types. These have that kind of leaves; those have such bark and third are about 200 meters high. But if you select two trees of the same species, cut logs and look inside them ... you will find out - they are not the same at all...
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