Hi, everyone. I am working on a mission style china hutch that will have divided light upper sides with a frame and panel top and bottom (for the top half). I am using QS red oak for most of the construction, but am running out of QS and money. I am thinking of making the bottom with 3″ rails and stiles and approx. 10.5″ bookmatched panel. The top and bottom would both be 16.5″ by 51″.
I plan on using QS wood for the pieces facing the front, and using plainsawn (as close to riftsawn as I can get) wood for the ends, back and center panel. I would laminate a thin piece of QS to the showing face before final machining and joinery to get a look of pure QS.
I now that the different cuts move differently, but does anyone know how much that would affect the stability of the assembly? I can cut the veneer as thin as 1/16th or so. I’m not worried so much about the rails and stiles, but the 10.5″ center panel must stay flat.
Any suggestions would be appreciated. I am hoping that someone else out there has tried this with good success.
Thanks, Dan
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Dan , I think I know what you mean , you wanna use some QS and some mixed grain rift to flat grain . As far as the stability , assuming the MC is constant and all the material is acclimated and acclimatized in general .There is no reason for your piece not to be stable simply because some boards are QS and others not .
Sure QS and Rift are a very stable board , but other grains can provide as much structural integrity .
Does a substrate get veneered to create the panel ?
You want to veneer some of the parts , will you do both sides ?
Will all the parts that have veneer be part of the same assembly ?
dusty
I have not done this, but that's because I think it would be a terrible idea. One of the beauties of using QS stock is it's dimensional stability. Plainsawn, or flatsawn, red oak is not regarded as dimensionally stable. I think you would have some serious problems if you laminated QS red oak to plain sawn red oak due to the expansion/contraction of the PS stock, and the lack of movement in the QS stock.
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