><<Flitch cut, not sawn. <G> > >Ron N>> > >??????? >Jim Bryant (FL) Veneer isn't sawn, it would be too wasteful to lose half of that lovely marketable stuff to sawdust. It's sliced. Rotary cut veneer is peeled off of a log that's rotating in a big lathe, in a continuous piece, which means it's relatively flat rather than quarter cut grain. If you want quarter cut, sequential linear slices (like slicing a loaf of bread) are taken from a quartered log (flitch). That's more time consuming and therefor more expensive than rotary cutting. Flipping every other slice from a flitch will give you that nice mirror image book matching you see in fine furniture in a store near you. The grain pattern of flitch sliced wood can be rather dramatically varied by the chosen angle of the slices relative to grain direction of the flitch. Ron N
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