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That chat with a cabinetmaker made me rethink my whole plywood budget
He told me he ditched Baltic birch for domestic maple ply last year because the core voids were causing blowouts on CNC cuts, and I realized I've been ignoring a quality issue that's been eating my time for months. Has anyone else had similar problems with plywood cores ruining precision work?
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josephb353d ago
And the hidden filler layers in cheaper plywood just wreck any chance of clean edges on rabbet joints too.
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danieljenkins3d ago
Blew through a sheet of so-called "premium" birch last month only to find a pencil eraser sized void right where my dados needed to run clean. @josephb35 is dead right about those filler layers too, had a whole batch of drawer fronts delaminate on the router table because the glue joints gave way. Switched to a domestic maple ply with void free cores and it's been night and day for consistency on CNC work.
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