An ingenious method of inlaying thin veneers on flat surfaces of wood by machinery has been patented by the same firm.
Veneers or slices of wood about the thickness of coarse brown paper are glued on a board, e.
The various portions of inlay are then cut from different veneers of the desired colour and fitted into their places.
Veneers are both saw and knife cut; the saw wastes about as much as the thickness cut in sawdust.
It was the exceptional sizes of such pieces of timber, and veneers cut from them, which made the value of tables in Rome.
The French saw-cut their veneersthinner than the English do.
In Germany theveneers used are one to two millimetres thick, i.
The veneers which are sawed from walnut roots and forks of limbs, as in the crotch walnut, are very intricate and beautiful when all the details are well brought out by polishing.
If the student has provided himself with a number of samples of quartered oak veneers and has practiced their reproduction in oil and in distemper, he will have gained an experience that type and printing ink cannot possibly teach him.
In the crotch mahogany veneers one will frequently notice a fine set of veins which cross the mottlings or featherings in an opposite direction.
What is said regarding the preparation of various samples of veneers for study?
It may be possible to lay veneers of information on the surface of a child's mind, but it is not possible to lay on veneers of growth; and growth, not information, is the end at which Egeria has always aimed.
The same principle applies to veneers of wood, in which there is likewise no intention to deceive but rather a desire to make the most of the materials on hand.
This bureau, which contains in all about thirty drawers and recesses, is built of red deal overlaid with thick veneers of walnut and fine knotted pollard oak of dark hue, with cross-banded edges of walnut in various shades.
Its pleasing lines and frequently beautiful arrangement ofveneers make it a desirable addition to almost any room.
The figure is commonly of the straight ribbon type, but some veneers show a cross figure, a little like that of figured satinwood.
Many exotic woods were used for veneers and inlay.
Some veneers cost 20 times as much as others, and certain of the rarest and most beautifully figured sheets are literally worth their weight in silver.
The art of producing and using veneersdates back to the earliest days of civilization," says the Encyclopedia Britannica.
A greenish-yellow wood, which when used in veneers has the peculiarity of showing the characteristic figuration of plain, butt, and burl woods in a single small area.
Widely used for veneersand lumber of extreme dimensions and freedom from defect.
The richly figured leather-brown burl veneers made from trunk burls of elms from the Carpathian mountains, in central Europe, are among the costliest of cabinet woods.
Chiefly used in furniture in the form of veneerscut from the huge trunk burls, which yield sheets 5 × 6 feet without defects.
It is hard, firm, of the color of a ripe cucumber, and in veneers has a waxy figure.
In veneers it produces mottled wood and fine feather crotches.
Veneers cut from figured logs reveal an extraordinary wavy-like figure, and are beautiful and costly.
Red gum is one of the most widely used hardwoods for plywood and ranks second among native hardwoods in production of face veneers and first in production of utility or commercial veneers.
It is chiefly used in the form ofveneers sawed from small logs, about the size of fence posts.
It is considerably used for boxboards, furniture, veneers and fuel.
Veneers of the heartwood are largely used in furniture, sometimes as imitation mahogany or Circassian walnut.
In the South, the wood is extensively used for flooring, interior finish, paper pulp and veneers for baskets of all kinds.
To Heppelwhite we must also give credit for the most refined and tasteful use of inlay and of veneers to be found in English furniture.
In fine examples the veneers form little pictures, or patterns, either by the arrangement of the grain of the pieces used, so as to make pictorial lines by means of the grain itself, or by using woods of various colours.
The recognised way of making Intarsia was, and is, to form both pattern and ground in thin veneers about 1/16 of an inch thick, which are glued down upon a solid panel.
Assume that the veneers are holly, mahogany, and rosewood.
Built up borders for inlaying] The number of combinations which can be obtained from three or four veneers of different thicknesses is astonishing, but perhaps the most interesting form is called built up work.
Three or more veneers 1/16 inch thick are glued together at the corners and the design drawn or glued on the top layer.
Veneers coloured green are on the market and may be used for leaves or foliage effects.
The bottoms are made mostly of pine; the rims of the case are of ash or cherry, or of some hard wood that will hold the rosewood veneerswith which they are covered.
The case-maker makes the rims of the case, and veneers them.
The sound construction of these old veneered cabinets was before the days of machinery; veneers or slices of the wood to be laid on were cut by hand, and were one-eighth of an inch thick, hence their stability.
A very convenient tool for inlaying veneers edgewise, so as to produce alternate dark and white lines is made by taking a piece of steel, one fourth of an inch by one sixteenth thick, and making a chisel, like Fig.
It is sometimes possible to get veneers of the right thickness, but any veneer cutter will saw the wood as desired.
The veneers should all be glued together, side and side first, that is, if two colors are used, then they will fit on the ends properly, and may be handled with more expedition.
Very many veneers cannot be handled at all when dry, without breaking all to pieces and spoiling the pattern.
Tops made and veneers laid under such a pressure will remain level and true and perfectly secure.
It is so arranged that the veneers are laid for several tops at one time.
I soon began to make so many cases that I wanted some better way to get my veneers than to saw them by hand.
In 1825, we built a small factory on the stream below the shop where I sawed my veneers two or three years before, but there was no road to it or bridge across the stream.
I have worked there a great many nights till twelve o'clock and even two in the morning, sawing veneersfor my men to use the next day.
Later, this marqueterie became florid, badly finished, and the colouring of the veneers crude and gaudy.
Even the thin veneers upon the case act as a restraining force upon the baser wood which they cover, and in some parts of the instrument the veneer is double for the purpose of keeping both in order.
Veneers so cut from logs selected for the figure, possess a rare beauty which no other American wood equals.
The burls are sliced or sawed in veneers which are much prized by cabinet makers.
Medium priced articles may be of solid birch, but the best commodities are made of veneers laid upon other woods.
Trunk makers use it in three-ply veneers for the bodies, trays, boxes and compartments of trunks and for suit cases.
Only two woods are now employed in larger amounts for veneers in the United States than maple.
Not only is it used for rotary-cut veneer, but it is made into cores or backing on which veneers of costly woods are glued in the manufacture of furniture, interior finish and fixtures for banks, stores and offices.
It is cut thin for shelving; it is made into panels, and is employed as cores over which to lay veneers of more expensive materials.
Waste scraps of veneers of rare woods can be glued on blocks of pine.
Veneers or thin pieces are sometimes successfully glued with the grain of the pieces running at right angles, as seen in chair seats, but as a rule avoid gluing wide pieces together with the grain running at right angles.
The more expensive mouldings are either in wood (such as oak or mahogany), in veneersof any expensive ornamental wood, or real gilt.
German artisans are also very successful in the preparation of imitation of veneers of rosewood, mahogany, walnut and other ornamental woods.
Old Sophy was his parishioner, but the Veneers had a pew in the Reverend Mr. Fairweather's meeting-house.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "veneers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
