Thread: plywood

Hi
Bunnies sell some imported Asian timber pinkish "marine ply". Is that where he got it? Its difficult without a photo. Meranti is pinkish too. Maybe you could ask where he got it?


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My first guess would be luan ply

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Thanks for your help. Luan ply seems to resemble what i have, thanks steamjunkprops. Hubby got it from his work - printing factory not sure what they use is for.

i still can't work out why this won't let me upload my photo. I click on the paper clip and it opens up the file upload manager and click on the green plus to add file. A drpo down menu shows up to choose files from computer. but nothing happens. why??? very fustrating . I even created an album but still have the same problem.

anyway, i will have to research about luan ply.

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Hey hey!!! success!!! not sure if that's any good

Good Morning Julia

Years ago, when I worked in the timber trade, we sold timber from the shorea spp with the following trade names:

• Light coloured - Lauan
• Dark coloured - Meranti
• Highly figured - Pacific Maple.

The lauan was significantly softer than the meranti, even though from the same species. The selection was done by our timber grader and largely based on market considerations. Maple was more expensive than meranti and lauan was the cheapest.

Your plywood is rotary pealed with virtually no grain pattern visible making it very difficult to identify species. If it was sourced from SE Asia then lauan.meranti is a good guess.



Fair Winds

Graeme