Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Quick Tips: Working With Plywood”.
Hey, I’m Bob from I like to make stuff today on this quick tip. We’Re going to talk about plywood plywood sounds kind of boring right. Well, it’s a great material that can be used for all sorts of different things from construction, all the way up to furniture making. Now the reason that works is because there are multiple grades of plywood. The plywood that you use for construction is a lower grade.
It often has fewer plies and sometimes has voids within the wood itself. This is perfectly fine, if you’re using it for a subfloor or to cover a roof. If you’re wanting to use plywood for furniture you’re going to have to use a higher grade, which will be more expensive, higher grade, plywood usually have more plies that are thinner and are usually faced on the outside. With a hard wood like oak birch for walnut nice ply, woods can get pretty expensive, but it’s a lot cheaper than buying solid wood at the same size. Now, if you have nice plywood and you want it to look like solid wood, you can apply an edge banding to it. This is a thin veneer with an adhesive back. You can attach it using a regular iron and then use a sharp knife to trim off the excess use, a sanding block to smooth it out, and you get pretty good results. A more precise way to do.
It would be to use a router with a flush trim bit to cut it off, then again, smooth it out with a sanding block in more modern furniture designs. Instead of hiding the fact that it’s plywood people often accentuate it in an upcoming project. I’Ll show you how to take multiple pieces of plywood sandwich them together and use a finish to accentuate the fact that it’s plywood, you can use the layers as a design element rather than trying to hide them.
So keep an eye out for that upcoming project, as well as more quick tips. You you .