All top grade veneer no knots or defects.
Veneer over hardwood.
Custom sizes and veneer sheets up to 8 long available.
Engineered flooring construction produces a very durable and stable floor.
Veneer is the top 1 32 to 1 4 layer of real wood that is glued over a layer of hardwood plywood cores or mdf hdf cores.
Using a thicker core of wood with an 1 8 veneer placed with the grain direction is the way i would approach this then anticipate and account for wood movement.
I agree that movement should be close to regular hardwood.
And it wasn t always of the same species.
Veneer sheets are trimmed to size and sanded on both sides.
The lumber companies who require hard and softwood lumber to make things like flooring cabinet doors etc get to choose from the logs that are left.
Logs have to meet specific criteria in order to be utilized in veneer due to how the veneer flitches are skinned off the log etc.
20 hardwood species to choose from including walnut cherry and hard maple.
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I m sure that there are others here with lots more experience laying up veneer than i ve got.
If that was my aim i would use plywood as my core and apply veneer to both sides.
A lot of antique furniture had veneer over solid wood.
In the case of a dining room table this determination can be made by looking at the unfinished edge where leafs are inserted in the table top.
Engineered wood flooring offers a real wood veneer top layer.
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