Thread: Advice needed - timber veneer? Plywood? Sydney

best bet is to pick up the yellow pages and find the closest Plywood distributer, such as a Mr PlyWood http://www.misterplywood.com.au and see what they can do. Most plywoods are a light colour, although you can get other timber laminates over MDF or particle board.

Thanks Slavo. So a plywood would be suitable then? I'll get onto Mr Plywood.

plywoods vary in grade which will affect the texture of the surface, some are left pretty much rough sanded for construction purposes through to finely sanded stuff for furniture, so it depend on what you're after. they take paints and other finished like any other piece of wood, but some experimenting might be need on your part to decide what you want. see if you can get some offcuts to play around with first.

Mr Plywood has a cut-to-size service, at least at their Hornsby outlet. Plywood has a long & honourable history as a surface for decorative painting running back at least into the 3 digit years AD/CE.

Brilliant, thank you!

You may want to consider red cedar.
I note some are in the NSW art gallery is painted on this timber, it is non oily and stable. Nolan? somone may confirm, but not unusual, if you want a red background that is. Other timbers could be white cedar, blackwood, perhaps a bit dark, palonia (white), white beech.
Regards
Greg

Thanks Greg - sounds like cedar has a great pedigree with artists. I'll check it out.