ian maybury
12-14-2011, 8:09 PM
Just for info. Today I found a local (Irish) source for a phenolic resin faced plywood which I'm hoping to use for extension tables for my saw, and for sub fence material. It looked promising enough to order a sheet anyway...
There's two versions, both are 18mm thick. One is flat and smooth finished in a brown phenolic resin with some sort of reinforcing fibre in it on both sides, but looked to use a slightly lower quality ply - it's used to make re-usable shuttering/casing moulds for structural concrete.
The second is used for truck beds, trailer floors and the like. It's apparently also used by trailer builders for wall panels and the like. It's a multi layer ply, almost like birch. The coating on one side is as above, while that on the back is embossed with a grid pattern to provide good footing grip.
It looks like it should be very stable, and hopefully it saws without issues too. Not expensive, actually a bit cheaper than birch ply.
It may well be old hat to you guys in the US (I've seen something like it mentioned before), but the fact that it's a generic and probably reasonably widely available material if you know what to ask for may be of assistance.
ian
PS My source don't have a website, but this came up in the UK for a quick search - except as usual for you guys there's probably a gazillion more versions available in the US :): http://www.winwood-products.com/eng/timber-products/mesh-plywood.htm
There's two versions, both are 18mm thick. One is flat and smooth finished in a brown phenolic resin with some sort of reinforcing fibre in it on both sides, but looked to use a slightly lower quality ply - it's used to make re-usable shuttering/casing moulds for structural concrete.
The second is used for truck beds, trailer floors and the like. It's apparently also used by trailer builders for wall panels and the like. It's a multi layer ply, almost like birch. The coating on one side is as above, while that on the back is embossed with a grid pattern to provide good footing grip.
It looks like it should be very stable, and hopefully it saws without issues too. Not expensive, actually a bit cheaper than birch ply.
It may well be old hat to you guys in the US (I've seen something like it mentioned before), but the fact that it's a generic and probably reasonably widely available material if you know what to ask for may be of assistance.
ian
PS My source don't have a website, but this came up in the UK for a quick search - except as usual for you guys there's probably a gazillion more versions available in the US :): http://www.winwood-products.com/eng/timber-products/mesh-plywood.htm