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| Author: | WendyW [ Tue Aug 06, 2013 4:59 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Dyed veneers for rosettes |
Where is a good place to buy dyed colored veneers for rosettes? What I have found have been sycamore, poplar, koto, and tulipier. Does the type of wood matter for thin veneer lines and tiles? |
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| Author: | ZekeM [ Tue Aug 06, 2013 5:05 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Dyed veneers for rosettes |
LMI has a good selection of colored veneers. |
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| Author: | WendyW [ Tue Aug 06, 2013 5:34 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Dyed veneers for rosettes |
yes they do, but look at the price! |
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| Author: | Tony_in_NYC [ Tue Aug 06, 2013 6:00 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Dyed veneers for rosettes |
You could buy the plain maple purfling strips and dye them yourself. Not hard and you can get the color you want. |
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| Author: | ernie [ Tue Aug 06, 2013 7:09 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Dyed veneers for rosettes |
I got my veneers from certainly wood veneer in buffalo ny. vy reasonable.Be careful if your dyeing , and use strong lightfast dyes. |
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| Author: | WaddyThomson [ Tue Aug 06, 2013 8:12 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Dyed veneers for rosettes |
If you have the capability to thin to your spec, you can get dyed veneers from Constantines. Not the best, but pretty good. I use a disk on my drill press to thin to my thickness goal. It takes some care, but works fine. Hard to go thinner than .3 mm though. LMII's dyed veneer is really nice, and they have the thin stuff. It goes a long way when making purfling lines out of it, and saves a lot of work. It doesn't go so far when laying up patterns. |
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| Author: | WendyW [ Tue Aug 06, 2013 9:12 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Dyed veneers for rosettes |
Wood River Veneer and B&B Rare Woods both have a great selection of colors, but I just don't know which of the types of woods I mentioned would be best. I have gotten other veneer from B&B and was really happy with their service and the veneer, but it wasn't dyed and I don't know anything about koto or tulipier. The prices are about 1/3 of LMI |
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| Author: | Michael.N. [ Wed Aug 07, 2013 12:48 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Dyed veneers for rosettes |
The really thin stuff you can make yourself with a very sharp Jack plane. Choose straight, easy grained stuff. Most of the dyed veneer we get in the UK is Maple. |
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| Author: | TimAllen [ Wed Aug 07, 2013 1:04 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Dyed veneers for rosettes |
I recently bought some dyed veneer from B & B woods and was very happy with it. |
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| Author: | MaxBishop [ Wed Aug 07, 2013 8:32 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Dyed veneers for rosettes |
+1 on B&B Rare Woods. |
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| Author: | WendyW [ Wed Aug 07, 2013 2:31 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Dyed veneers for rosettes |
Thanks, I'll order some from B&B. If I want some thinner I've had good luck in the past thinning veneers in my Performax on a backer board. |
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| Author: | Tony_in_NYC [ Wed Aug 07, 2013 2:36 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Dyed veneers for rosettes |
I saw a violin maker who used a piece of ebony and took shavings with his plane to make the black purfling lines. It was quite impressive. |
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