a.

Twenty-first Century all the big trees have been cut — 

what has been

Since there is more cut lumber

there is more cut wood of the most valuable furniture species in panelling, ships, etc.

Much of John’s practice is to re-purpose

Inspired by Inuit woodworkers of Labrador and make-do ingenuity of traditional woodworkers of Newfoundland dismayed by the waste of materials and prohibitive cost of premium

Both crooked and knotty — top dollar for lower quality than that cut in the past and available to re-use.

aminating thin layers of quality wook over rameworks of lesser wood (often only considered “lesser” due to subjective colour preferences). These are plentiful, useful but still expensive. For example Poplar, with an unpleasant green hue, has the same structural properties and cutting, machining and hand-tooling as the richly beautiful Mahogany. Typically, a “Mahogany chest of drawers” whas a structure of a “lesser” species of wood excellent for building and locally sourced (aka less expensive and plentiful). The gorgeous dark woods, with the. exceptions of ….Africa, Asia, and South America—therefore extremely expensive. Due to over-cutting to a catastrophic degree, they are now consequentially rare.

The magic of John’s materiality, silk purse from sow’s ear,

b.

Make use of secondary wood, make it the outside while inlaying primary wood species

The quality of remaining raw lumber cut now continues to plummet,

c.

Uses many old-world processes such as inlay combined with

Primary and secondary wood

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The Prejudice Against Veneer

Veneer is a process by which the most beautiful furniture is made. However, it is also the process by which the worst furniture is made, therefore this process has been unjustly vilified.

Examples A best & worst.

The advantage of veneer
Veneer is made from the very highest quality logs and unlike plywood, it is not unrolled as a continual sheet, it is sliced from logs lengthwise, just a boards are cut from logs. No sawdust is lost during this process so each slice differs only slightly from the slice adjacent, allowing the woodworker to create beautiful patterns using matching grains.

The consumer furniture industry glues these thin sheets to substrates of low quality particle board, leading to faster disintegration after normal use. So yes, veneer is more delicate because the wood itself is 3/32nds of an inch or less so it has its place in woodworking and if judiciously employed can be incredibly beautiful an last for centuries.Just a s painting is contained and protected by a frame, veneers surfaces when protected by solid wood borders, can be highly durable.

Why is veneer so thin?

You can make elaborate patterns Because

“lumbercore” plywood

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