Rik Rickerson
11-24-2004, 4:29 PM
Greetings,
I will be building an interior sign for a client. It's dimensions are 6' wide 45" tall and 2" thick. It will consist of three laminations: bottom & middle - 7/8" walnut, top 1/4" cherry. The logo and text will be routed 1" deep. It will have a floating 2" walnut border. The finish will be oil and wax.
I'm very concerned with wood movement so my question is which option would be better?
Option 1: Should I laminate all the layers with the grain going in the same direction? I don't know if walnut and cherry move at the same rate so I'm concerned that the thicker walnut layer will over power the thinner cherry layer resulting in cracks in the cherry.
Option 2: Laminating the middle layer with the grain running perpendicular to the top and bottom layer creating a plywood effect. One advantage this option offers is the vertical grain would allow the routed text to be more visually appealing.
Take care,
Rik
I will be building an interior sign for a client. It's dimensions are 6' wide 45" tall and 2" thick. It will consist of three laminations: bottom & middle - 7/8" walnut, top 1/4" cherry. The logo and text will be routed 1" deep. It will have a floating 2" walnut border. The finish will be oil and wax.
I'm very concerned with wood movement so my question is which option would be better?
Option 1: Should I laminate all the layers with the grain going in the same direction? I don't know if walnut and cherry move at the same rate so I'm concerned that the thicker walnut layer will over power the thinner cherry layer resulting in cracks in the cherry.
Option 2: Laminating the middle layer with the grain running perpendicular to the top and bottom layer creating a plywood effect. One advantage this option offers is the vertical grain would allow the routed text to be more visually appealing.
Take care,
Rik