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   WillGeorge | Apr 29, 2005 08:08pm | #1

   GOOD question!

   I do not know but will be watching for the Experts to answer....!

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   RickL | Apr 29, 2005 10:03pm | #2

   Veneer is dried after it is sawn into veneers.

   http://www.industrialmachinesales.com/pages/dryer_press_dryer.htm

   http://www.heatwave.com/applications/wood/veneer.htm

   Awhile ago there was an article in the master section in the back of FWW on Silas Kopf's oyster veneering. Pieces are sliced from the limb and clamped between boards and paper.

   Veneer dryer

   The thin sheet of wood is usually dried in roller, end-less belt, or hot-plate dryers. It is subjected to high temperatures and is held relatively flat. 

    from....

   http://drykiln.sd61.bc.ca/Glossary/v.htm

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   AndyE | Apr 30, 2005 12:23am | #3

   Now that you mention the article I sorta recall seeing it. Have to look in the stack to find it.I think the DW would have me sleeping on the patio if I bought a veneer dryer like one of those. She's after me now to have the logs on the front lawn milled so she can see the grass. Doesn't like my idea about the rustic setting and all.I guess I could clamp it between two sheets of ply in the oven, but that means I am limited to veneer the size of my oven. So much for putting those woody panels on the pickup. And I thought they would look so stylin' too.It just seems to be tough on the saw cutting 10" or 12" green logs to make sheets. Hmm. Andy"It seemed like a good idea at the time"

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   AndyE | Apr 30, 2005 02:17am | #4

   This kind of thing could come in handy. Now I will have to find something to do with them, besides leaving them lying on the kitchen countertop.Andy"It seemed like a good idea at the time"

   Edited 4/29/2005 7:18 pm ET by AndyE

   
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   Jamie_Buxton | Apr 30, 2005 05:10am | #5

   A few years ago I read of somebody who was sawing veneer green, and then freeze-drying it!  I haven't tried this myself, but remembered it because it seems like such a cool trick.

   He bandsawed the veneer.  IIRC, his sheets were something like 3/32" thick.  He stickered the sheets with thin (maybe 1/8"?) stickers, and then put the stack in his freezer.   The sheets immediately freeze -- while they're still flat, and before escaping water turns them into potato chips.   Then he waited.   Y'know how the ice in your freezer slowly disappears?  Well, that's what happens to the water in the green slices of wood.  It slowly disappears, leaving dry flat wood behind.

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   AndyE | Apr 30, 2005 05:36pm | #6

   So if I have something to be veneered in say a year or two I should start cutting and freezing now? Maybe those old chops in there would work too. I'll try anything twice.ThanksAndy"It seemed like a good idea at the time"