12-25-2012, 05:37 PM
Yes, I understand how plywood is made:
But if I understand you correctly, that layer under the top mahogany veneer would have to be mahogany for me to be seeing open grained wood running perpendicular to the top under the faux wood. In which case, they would have had to remove the top veneer for those two stripes of faux cross banding. And from my experience, those stripes of faux wood are not that thick. I have a Motorola wooden table radio that had a 1" horizontal stripe of faux cross banding along the bottom and the middle. The case was terribly degraded, so I stripped the whole thing. The area with the faux grain was left with a very faint shadow where the wood was protected from UV. If you look close and I don't point out what I removed, you wouldn't know. But it's all nice smooth mahogany. My point is that the faux wood was merely applied over the wood. There's enough finish missing on my Philco where the missing faux wood grain meets the top veneer and I can see the edge of the top veneer. Look closely: don't you see an inlaid stripe of cross banding under the faux finish:
[Image: http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z309/...le-153.jpg]
[Image: http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z309/...le-154.jpg]
Quote:Plywood is made of three or more thin layers of wood bonded together with an adhesive. Each layer of wood, or ply, is usually oriented with its grain running at right angles to the adjacent layer in order to reduce the shrinkage and improve the strength of the finished piece.
But if I understand you correctly, that layer under the top mahogany veneer would have to be mahogany for me to be seeing open grained wood running perpendicular to the top under the faux wood. In which case, they would have had to remove the top veneer for those two stripes of faux cross banding. And from my experience, those stripes of faux wood are not that thick. I have a Motorola wooden table radio that had a 1" horizontal stripe of faux cross banding along the bottom and the middle. The case was terribly degraded, so I stripped the whole thing. The area with the faux grain was left with a very faint shadow where the wood was protected from UV. If you look close and I don't point out what I removed, you wouldn't know. But it's all nice smooth mahogany. My point is that the faux wood was merely applied over the wood. There's enough finish missing on my Philco where the missing faux wood grain meets the top veneer and I can see the edge of the top veneer. Look closely: don't you see an inlaid stripe of cross banding under the faux finish:
[Image: http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z309/...le-153.jpg]
[Image: http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z309/...le-154.jpg]
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