Solid Oak Plywood.

[BirdOasis]

I bought some oak plywood at Lowes. I keep breaking the small bird pins and ornaments I've been trying to scroll. See I keep shrinking down larger bird patterns to hang on a tree, or pin on a shirt or blouse.

Well I gotta tell ya, I love oak! Man this stuff can take a beating from my clumbsy hands, the saw, and even my powercarfter. It's soo much easyier to work with for me.

I don't want to tell you how many birch plywood pieces are sitting in what I call my pile of shame. Carol calls it my experiance pile, she's starting going through it and breaking off chioce pieces and taping them to her monitor.

At the rate I was going she would have the monitor covered in wooden leaf pieces in another week. haha. Same that the oak makes me a better scroller, now she'll have to wait for me to make a real monitor frame.

Wonder if there's a market for monitor frames? hehe.

[Kevin12]

I like Oak, too. Red Oak, but then that's what oak plywood is made of, I believe. I'm using oak plywood to build a bookcase, but for scrolling, I much prefer hardwood. Don't have to worry about seeing the bands on the edges, I guess.

I think Oak's a gorgeous wood, it's inexpensive, readily available, and scrolls well. I typically stack cut 6 1/8" pieces and use a #2R blade - works great.

I have other favorite woods, too, but to date I've used oak most. I did just recently scroll some ornaments (1/8") in maple, and they seemed the most fragile of all the wood species I used. Could I have gotten that "other" kind of maple (not Hard Maple)? It was sold as simply, "Maple."

[BirdOasis]

It isn't plywood, my bad.

It's actually solid oak. I was thinking plywood. I found some at home depot that is 8 in wide, which will allow me to use some of the patterns I have at near full size at least.

Thanks for your help!

[Mick Walker]

BirdOasis, check out www.heritagewood.com for wide pieces made for us scrollers.

[Minnesota scroller]

You can get red oak up to 8" wide in 3/8" and 7" wide in 1/2" from http://www.sloanswoodshop.com/. I've bought all my wood from this outfit and always had positive results.

[Grizz]

I believe you can buy from SCROLLER catalog Oak Ply that will hold up like birch ply will. Jeff Z, promotes it for his patterns.

[William Young (SE BC)]

Wish I could find some decent oak plywood around here. I have used solid oak for many years but now the price of it is getting probitive. So in searching for oak ply all I can find is cabinet grade with voids in the center layers and others are partical board filler between two very thin veneers of oak. That is fine for cabinet work because they use the iron on oak veneer around the edges. But it is no good for scrolling.
So in desperation I have reluctantly turned to baltic birch ply and have developed some staining techniques that are working quite well for me as shown here.





I know it is not as good as solid woods but they cost a fraction of the price for the wood which results in more sales and from a few feet back it really is hard for the average person to tell the difference. I sell these clocks for at least $100.00 less than their solid wood counterparts.
W.Y.

[BirdOasis]

I've turned to solid wood from lowes until I determine if it will work for me. One thing I've figured out is that I've been moving too fast. Slower really is better. hehe.

[thelordseba]

Wish I could find some decent oak plywood around here. I have used solid oak for many years but now the price of it is getting probitive. So in searching for oak ply all I can find is cabinet grade with voids in the center layers and others are partical board filler between two very thin veneers of oak. That is fine for cabinet work because they use the iron on oak veneer around the edges. But it is no good for scrolling.
So in desperation I have reluctantly turned to baltic birch ply and have developed some staining techniques that are working quite well for me as shown here.





I know it is not as good as solid woods but they cost a fraction of the price for the wood which results in more sales and from a few feet back it really is hard for the average person to tell the difference. I sell these clocks for at least $100.00 less than their solid wood counterparts.
W.Y.

Excelente tu trbajo. Serias tan amable de pasar el patron de los mismos. desde ya muchas gracias.