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   joespehar | Apr 30, 2007 01:52am | #1

   What is reconstituted veneer?

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   Kevin | Apr 30, 2007 02:49am | #2

   I assume you're referring to Brookline veneers?

   http://www.kenmarkinc.com/brookside/brookline.htm

   I've worked with their stuff a couple times. It's certainly an interesting product. Pretty high quality from what I've seen. Available in a variety of colors and looks. The color goes all the way through and the glue is color matched to the veneer color and also goes all the way through. From what I'm told they use very high pressure vats when they dye the wood and that's how they get total saturation and even color.

   It's not everybody's cup of tea, of course. But they do make a very good Zebrawood look-a-like that is very attractive and it's really easy to color some of their veneers to look very much like Wenge.

   Pretty interesting stuff, over all.

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   cadiddlehopper | Apr 30, 2007 04:30am | #4

   "very high pressure vats"How do you pressurize a vat? Make it extremely deep? How deep?Cadiddlehopper

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   Ron01960 | Apr 30, 2007 06:07am | #5

   I saw teak and birdseye maple,  they looked to perfect. It looked like any sheet would book match any other 100 slices down the stack.

   Ron 

    

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   Ron01960 | Apr 30, 2007 06:12am | #6

   That looks and sounds like the stuff. Defect free, thats just not right....................

    

   Ron

    

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   KeithNewton | Apr 30, 2007 02:55am | #3

   I used it when it first came out about 20 years ago, but I have not since. It is a soft white wood that is sliced into veneer then dyed, then maybe embossed to look like birds-eye, then glued back together with a colored glue, which looks like a parenchyma line.

   When they have glued enough back together to have a new virtual veneer log, they slice it up again, and have something that looks a lot like what nature provides in very select logs, only more uniform.

   It comes in more designer colors than nature does, like light gray, or pastel blue or green.

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   ring | Apr 30, 2007 07:40am | #7

   I've come across more and more architects asking for it, because it is so "predictable" and perfect. Some of the better ones are very difficult to identify as reconstituted; I've seen red oak that was almost identical to fine rift cut red oak. On the other hand, some of the patterns can get pretty weird.

   Have a look at these. Tabu is a leader in this technology:
   http://mail.tabu.it/inglese/piallacci%20MW.htm

   David Ring

   http://www.touchwood.co.il/?id=1&lang=e

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   loucarabasi | Apr 30, 2007 12:51pm | #8

   Don't listen to ring! He knows nothing!

   -lou

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   ring | Apr 30, 2007 02:37pm | #9

   Amen to that!
   David Ring

   http://www.touchwood.co.il/?id=1&lang=e