Lovely wooden ideas

[Yorkie]

Captain Kirk might have said 'it's plywood Jim, but not as we know it'.

Not unless he'd really lost it and was talking to himself! This was Doctor Macoy's line: "It's life, Jim, but not as we know it."
- Joe

Ooops, so it was. I was distracted by 'Klingons on the starboard bow, starboard, bow, starboard bow', when I wrote that!

That's done me for the day - I won't be able to get that off my brain now!

To give some idea of what you'll get if you go to a typical timber merchant or DIY store and ask for 'plywood', I've attached some pics of a couple of pieces of what is 'construction plywood' - not 'birch through and through', which is furniture grade.

It will be evident from the third pic, that there are three low density, low grade filler plys - two of which can be seen as end grain, one long grain, sandwiched between two very thin surface veneers about 0.5mm think, of slightly better quality. The second pic shows a thicker piece of constructon grade ply, with many more plys, again surfaced by two very thin slightly better quality surface plys. So thin in fact that it's barely visible. As can be seen, the inner plys are low grade and there are many voids. The first pic shows the surface of that piece of plywood, which is actually quite presentable. All of this plywood is entirely fit for it's intended purpose, which was to lay over the surface of uneven floorboards in a Victorian House in London to level the surface, prior to having a very (very, very!) expensive gunstock oak solid hardwood floor laid. But of course, for cabinet making it would be useless.

How did it fall into my hands? From one of my skip diving exercises, this time outside the home of a near neighbour's of Nick Clegg, but I reserve my right to remain silent if questioned under caution:D

Unfortunately, the offcuts of gunstock oak were right at the bottom of the skip, and my wife wisely suggested that I should temper my enthusism to climb into the skip with a little more discretion, considering that it was under the noses of a posse of armed police guarding Nick Clegg's abode. Had I been alone, rather than with my 'carer' I'd have probably been in the skip quicker than a rat up a drain.(Knowing, as I do, that a person does not commit an offence under the Theft Act 1968 if he believes that he has lawful authority to remove the items in question, or that he would have it if the person entitled to give that authority knew of the removal of the items, and the circumstances of their removal. "Your Worships!").

David