VENEER CUTTING.

Northland Age, Volume IV, Issue 48, 20 July 1908, Page 2

VENEER CUTTING.

The veneer cutter is one of the wonders of modern times. It is one result of the scarcity and high price of valuable timber, for if mahogany, rosewoqd, and ebony were as cheap as pine there would be no need for a veneering machine. A saw cutter will cut 25 or 30 slices of veneer from an inch of wood, and most people would think that this is a tolerably economical use, even of rosewood. But the knife cutter shaves off the wood in a slice so thin that from 125 to 150 veneers to the inch be cut, and still every one of these shavings preserves the colour and shows the texture of the original wood, and so smoothly is the cutting done that very often no polishing is necessary. The cheapness with which the work is done may be appreciated by the fact that cigar boxes are very often made of cheap wood and veneered with cedar ; and it is thus that cheap furniture is made.