Book-matched Rotary Cut Veneer?

[alex grams]

Can someone explain to me how you get a rotary cut veneer book matched? I am looking at some veneer for a project and it is listed as this arrangement.

Do they do the rotary cuts and then at 360 degrees cut the veneer so that the pieces are book matched at the cut? Then each piece would get successively narrowed as the log diameter decreased?

[Thomas S Stockton]

In hardwoods rotary cut means something different than in softwoods. In softwoods rotary cut is peeled off the log kinda like unrolling toilet paper. In hardwoods the log is split and each individual sheet is cut off following the outer edge in a circular motion. This is done to get better yield, better figure and in certain maple cuts to maximize the white sap wood.
There is a video at www.theveneerstore.com/ look to the left for the link titled how veneer is made. the first log they slice is being rotary cut.
Tom

[alex grams]

ahh, so they basically half or quarter the log, then rotary cut the half/quarter.

Gotcha. Something was meshing there for me.