Hi guys,
Am working on a job currently with a lot of 18mm birch plywood - ordered from a new supplier at £150/sheet. Arrived a while ago and was very impressed with the faces, and in fact had 'artisan birch b/bb' stamped on the side when i ordered bb/bb (i thought that the higher grade was basically impossible to find/prohibitively expensive at the minute). There was barely a knot/patch in 30 or so boards.
As I've started preparing the panels for the job, I've noticed all boards have an incredibly thin face veneer (must be well under half a mil) which if sanded without care will go through to the glue layer. There's 13 plys as usual and has the heaviness of a normal birch ply sheet - just wondering if this was a common way of manufacturing sheets or wether they are trying to pass off an inferior board to me? As I say, very happy with appearance, but have never come across sheets like this - the faces have always been full plys when i've used birch before - wondered if anyone else has come across 'artisan birch plywood before'!
Any info appreciated, ta
Am working on a job currently with a lot of 18mm birch plywood - ordered from a new supplier at £150/sheet. Arrived a while ago and was very impressed with the faces, and in fact had 'artisan birch b/bb' stamped on the side when i ordered bb/bb (i thought that the higher grade was basically impossible to find/prohibitively expensive at the minute). There was barely a knot/patch in 30 or so boards.
As I've started preparing the panels for the job, I've noticed all boards have an incredibly thin face veneer (must be well under half a mil) which if sanded without care will go through to the glue layer. There's 13 plys as usual and has the heaviness of a normal birch ply sheet - just wondering if this was a common way of manufacturing sheets or wether they are trying to pass off an inferior board to me? As I say, very happy with appearance, but have never come across sheets like this - the faces have always been full plys when i've used birch before - wondered if anyone else has come across 'artisan birch plywood before'!
Any info appreciated, ta