Sentences with phrase «layers of wood veneer»

What made the chair revolutionary in 1956 — and what's still fascinating 55 years on — was the construction of the plywood shells: Thin layers of wood veneer were glued together and shaped under intense heat and pressure.»

Instead of the thin layers of wood veneer traditionally used by many auto manufacturers, which tends to fade or peel over time, Panoz LLC uses a resin - infused wood process that enables the company to offer real, solid wood trim in a stable, durable form.

Not exact matches

Here, the material of choice is maple wood, and for the construction two layers are used, the veneers polished to a high sheen by skilled craftsmen.

Veneers are laid onto a substrate part of up to 24 layers of wood and aluminium, carefully constructed to provide strength and safety in the event of an impact.

The marquetry floor piece she created for this exhibition, Armstrong Congoleum (2011), suggests the illusion of layers of vinyl flooring peeling back in disrepair yet is in fact meticulously composed entirely of wood veneer.

Sellers on a budget may want to buy engineered wood flooring (which is a hardwood veneer wrapped around several layers of plywood, fiberboard and hardwood).

Paining cabinets is tricky, and I'm pretty sure that on our cabinets, underneath all the layers of paint, is wood veneer.

Our veneers are layers of cut wood — so a natural material — and variations in the grain must be expected.

Engineered hardwood is composed of a face, or a top decorative layer of the species you've chosen, and multiple layers of perpendicularly stacked wood veneer underneath.

There were also areas where the veneer layer was coming loose from the main piece of wood.

Veneer is a thin layer of hardwood that is bonded to the wood surface below.