What type of plywood is this?
Hi there
could someone please tell me what type of plywood this is? ive used baltic birch plywood for some units and wanted the sane for cupboards. my carpenter says its birch but it looks redder & more variation than the birch i currently have, any ideas welcome 🙂
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HU-699981737
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Daisy England
2 years agoHU-699981737
2 years agoHU-699981737
2 years agoThanks! yes it’s alot redder inside, also stamp says its made in malaysia, i like it just doesnt go with existing birch ply so bit stuck 🥴
Frank
2 years agolast modified: 2 years agoThe thickness of the veneer layers (7 layers on 18mm, that is 2.5mm per layer), the brown color and the "made in [ tropical place ]" makes me think this is construction ply ("WBP" plywood), suitable for external use. The "EN636-3' label confirms that, https://apawood-europe.org/official-guidelines/european-standards/individual-standards/en-636/
Furniture panels - whether Birch (common in the UK, yellow-whitish) or Beech (common on the continent, pinkish) - tend to have thinner / more layers (11 or 13 on an 18mm sheet), and tend to be made in (Eastern) Europe ("Birch plywood" often also termed "Baltic Plywood"). Birch, specifically, isn't a tree that'd grow even in southern Europe never mind in the Tropics.It's an interesting design choice to make it into furniture. It's possible (it's hardwood plywood with a rather stable type of glue) alright. The challenge (from my point of view) is to color-match from different batches, because, at least as far as I'm aware, there's no specific "species guarantee" on this material. So buy WBP ply from two suppliers or two batches and it may have a slightly different color (obviously irrelevant if it's used as a covered part of a structure). For furniture carcassing, where it is painted, that wouldn't matter at all and it could well be an alternative priced between birch ply and MDF.
Here's an example of this used in construction:
Oiling it would likely bring out the grain more.HU-699981737 thanked Frank
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