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Where do the majority of you get your 1/8 door skins or luan for scutums? I have found 1 place within 10 miles that has it, $10.40 a sheet.
I forgot to add, they have regular base grade, then Oak and Birch, didnt get the prices for them though. Thoughts??
Thanks!
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Quote:Where do the majority of you get your 1/8 door skins or luan for scutums? I have found 1 place within 10 miles that has it, $10.40 a sheet.
I forgot to add, they have regular base grade, then Oak and Birch, didnt get the prices for them though. Thoughts??
Thanks!
Wes
Luan is a common flooring material and it is usually available at most Home stores, Lowes, Home Depot, etc in oak veneers in 4x8 foot sheets.
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My Home Depots and Lowes only carry the 1/4 inch stuff.....is that the more popular stuff?? AD 43 guys are requesting 1/8 inch. Thanks!
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There's a store in Maryland Heights that stocks 1/8" Luan
http://www.woodnshop.com/hardwood/LAUAN_PLYWOOD.htm
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I get mine from either Home Depot or lumber mills. I'd go with the 1/8" birch luan if you can.
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I'm not a tree-ologist, but I thought "luan" was a kind of lightweight mahogany.
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We get the 1/8" bendable birch stuff from a Northern Va Supplier,
Colonial Hardwoods. Rather more expensive a sheet but so easy to work with. Can be bought to bend on either axis.
Some of my pieces roll into as small as a 8" circle, but that may depend on the type of birch (there are several types): you'll have to ask.
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Good math, and good figgering.
1. what kind of screen molding--stock number?
2. what's the stock number of the door skins? Nobody down here so far seems to know what that is. Sigh.
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Austin: Fine Lumber & Plywood, 9407 Brown Ln, 78754 512/836 8990
http://www.thomasnet.com/southern-texas ... 603-1.html
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Hey David,
I believe Home Depot's SKU for the luan is 166-06.
and I lost the SKU for the moulding, but it's the 3/4"x1/8" 'D' shaped moulding, runs about 39 cents a foot. Don't cut it there in the store if you can help it. The stuff bends better if it's left in it's full length, which I believe is 20'.
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My neighbor told me Home Depot carries it in the 1/8 inch size. Its in the back by the cabinets and they call it veneer or some such. I am going to be checking it out later today.
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Wes is correct..they do sell it in the cabinet section, too. But I think that is smaller sheets. Maybe too narrow for a scutum. Worth checking it out, though.
The one's I'm getting are in the plywood section, and are called "door skins".
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Two 1/8" sheets is really more appropriate than three however- the scuta from Dura Europos and the majority of sections of copper alloy edge binding I've ever measured show that semicylindrical plywood scuta were really generally only about 6-7mm in thickness. Three sheets of 1/8" plywood is over 9.5mm thick...
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