Rotary Cut Natural Birch Doors

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Rotary cut natural birch doors.

Features rotary natural birch door skins pre graded prior to door construction and final shipment to minimize face defects. A quarter cut results from cutting in a radial direction and produces a series of vertical stripes in the grain pattern of the final product. The swirly grain pattern is pretty surreal. Finish profile formica.

Depending on the cutting method the same face can result in random uncontrollable color and patterns. Rotary natural birch therefore contains both components of a birch tree heartwood and sapwood. It starts with structure. Rotary cut birch flush door almost all white with some heartwood in the top corner rotary cut natural birch flush door.

Finish profile natural birch. But for some applications like the center panels of the cabinet doors shown above i think the rotary grain pattern works ok. Finish profile wilsonart. Finishes and colors for architectural wood doors.

Plain cut equals fine stationery sheets stacked neatly in a stack. Finish profile wilsonart. Finish profile walnut. S plinca sli ed white birch characteristics.

Like austin i fielded many complaints from architects over the years and began warning them when i saw rotary natural birch in their specification. This is a great illustration of the variations and unintended patterns that can occur with rotary cut natural birch doors to infinity and beyond. Sapwood is light and referred to as white in species such as ash birch and maple. Samples of birch showing the variations in color and tone.

Rotary cut face veneer looks nothing like flatsawn lumber as tim points out. Rotary cut follows the birch log s annual growth rings providing a generally bold random appearance. S pi si natural a y y y y s 1 per 3 sq. Veneer pieces of unequal width.

Each face is assembled from as many veneer pieces as necessary. Natural birch veneer flitches from artys door are book matched where every other piece of veneer is turned over so adjacent pages. S pi si red a n y y y s 1 per 3 sq. Plain sliced and rotary cut natural birch natural when referring to birch face veneer indicates that the face may contain both heartwood the red portion of the log and sapwood the white portion in unrestricted amounts.