Rick Potter
02-16-2007, 4:16 AM
Read on a post below about three prices of plywood at HD, and that the cheap stuff delaminates. Wish I had seen that earlier.
Starting to make shop cabinets for the new shop. Went to get particle board at HD, and saw a stack of 3/4 ply for about $5 more per sheet. Decent looking birch, with eight plies. Why not, it weighs less, looks like cheapo baltic birch, and besides I'm gonna paint it anyway.
Bought 6 sheets and brought them home two months ago. Last week I started building eight new cabinets. Got them all sized, ran dados that fit like a glove, and start assembling the first cabinet. The wood didn't fit in the dado!!
Tried several joints and one out of six fit?? What's going on here? Went back to my test piece and it fit all the dados perfectly. Now, I don't know about delaminating, but it turns out these sheets have different thicknesses.
NO! I am not talking about different sheets having different thicknesses...the thickness varies within the same plywood sheet. You can actually see where one layer is doubled on the edge of some of the sheets.
Now I have to go back and, as I assemble each cabinet, trim the dado's with a router and jig to fit the various components. I also had a lot of trouble with the face layers being so thin that if you are not carefull just picking up a piece may take a chunk of birch off the edge. Good thing they are just for the shop, and I am painting them. Shoulda bought the particle board.
The tip??
If it looks to good to be true, there is usually a reason. Buyer beware.
Rick Potter:mad:
Starting to make shop cabinets for the new shop. Went to get particle board at HD, and saw a stack of 3/4 ply for about $5 more per sheet. Decent looking birch, with eight plies. Why not, it weighs less, looks like cheapo baltic birch, and besides I'm gonna paint it anyway.
Bought 6 sheets and brought them home two months ago. Last week I started building eight new cabinets. Got them all sized, ran dados that fit like a glove, and start assembling the first cabinet. The wood didn't fit in the dado!!
Tried several joints and one out of six fit?? What's going on here? Went back to my test piece and it fit all the dados perfectly. Now, I don't know about delaminating, but it turns out these sheets have different thicknesses.
NO! I am not talking about different sheets having different thicknesses...the thickness varies within the same plywood sheet. You can actually see where one layer is doubled on the edge of some of the sheets.
Now I have to go back and, as I assemble each cabinet, trim the dado's with a router and jig to fit the various components. I also had a lot of trouble with the face layers being so thin that if you are not carefull just picking up a piece may take a chunk of birch off the edge. Good thing they are just for the shop, and I am painting them. Shoulda bought the particle board.
The tip??
If it looks to good to be true, there is usually a reason. Buyer beware.
Rick Potter:mad: