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Hardwood Plywood |
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The term "Hardwood Plywood' is deceiving because very few
of the components of a hardwood panel are made of
hardwoods. Most of the product is manufactured with inner
plys peeled from softwood veneers, softwood particleboard
and MDF cores, but in some Adores the species of the core
can be Lauan mother imported hardwoods. |
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It is the face and back of the panels themselves that are
100% hardwood. Depending on the panel and whether import
or domestic manufactured, the hardwood lace veneers are
1/30 to 1/80 of an inch in thickness. |
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IMPORTANT
NOTE: Fancy Faced imported hardwood panels....i.e.,
Cypress, Sen, Red Oak, White Oak and Walnut should never
be machine sanded. The thin veneers are Factory sanded and
we suggest only light hand block sanding before finishing. |
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GENERAL GRADES OF FACE GRADE VENEERS |
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Veneer can be sliced or cut from
different sections of the log: from the heartwood or innermost
portion, from the sapwood or outer layer, or from a combination of
both heartwood and sapwood. When these veneers are composed into
full sheets, the manner in which they are matched, the part of the
log from which they come and their relative appearance determines
the general classifications and often the grades. |
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Select Veneer (A Grade Face Veneers)
Selected for Quality and Color. |
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A select veneer is composed entirely
of heartwood or sapwood and is matched for both grain pattern and
color. |
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Uniform Veneer (B Grade-Select
Color) |
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A uniform veneer is also composed
entirely of heartwood or sapwood but is matched for color only.
The veneer is of lesser quality than the A Grade. |
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Natural Veneer (A through E Grades) |
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A
natural veneer is composed of both heartwood and sapwood. Select
or uniform heartwood veneers are usually more expensive than all
their sapwood counterparts since heartwood forms the smallest
portion of the tree and contains more defects. Because natural
veneers are a combination of both heartwood and sapwood, they are
generally the least expensive of the three |
