Best Quality Sliced Timber Veneer with Unique Natural Figures for Use in a Variety Of Projects

Sliced veneer is one of the finest uses of timber veneer in Australia because it’s real timber. One cubic meter of log can be used to produce around 1000 square timber veneer in Australia. No other woodworking material except sliced veneer can result in such a huge yield. Sliced timber is a thin layer of timber of uniform thickness, which is normally between 0.5 mm and 0.85 mm. Timber veneer in Australia is a natural and renewable resource which is competing with non-renewable commodities like steel, plastic and aluminium.

The benefit of sliced veneer is that you can get the look and feel of real exotic wood at a fraction of the cost. Furthermore, when you use timber veneer in Australia, you help to protect the environment because many projects can be completed with sliced veneer rather than the real hardwood log.

The grain characteristics of timber will vary depending on how it is sliced. By joining and staining timber veneer leaves in various ways, a wide range of designs can be created. Timber veneer in Australia can be produced by slicing or peeling selected logs of wood that can be flitched to using different cuts, such as the quarter cut or crown cut. Quarter cut produces straight grain while rotary peeled logs produce a non-descript swirl pattern.

Unique features of sliced veneers

Matilda Veneer provides the highest quality sliced veneer and timber veneer in Australia, preserving all of the unique and natural characteristics of the wood, such as burls, burrs, birdseye, figures, quilts, block mottle, stripe, fiddleback, and flames. Birdseye is visible on the back-cut surfaces of certain species, most notably Maple. Birdseye is distinguished by numerous rounded areas resembling small bird eyes. Birdseye is caused by small conical depressions of the growth rings accompanied by considerable fibre distortions.

Butts are formed when roots grow into a solid stump and distort into wavy ripple marks. The distorted grain figure is always present, along with some wavy cross figure. Curly figure is most common in birch and American maple, where the fibres cause irregular undulations in the veneer. Swirl is caused by irregular grain near the knot. Burr or burl in sliced veneer are large abnormal wart-like growths that display an attractive pattern of tightly packed bud formations, providing timber veneer in Australia an attractive and unusual figure. Fiddleback figure in sliced veneers is characterised by curls with fine undulation. When timber veneer in Australia is quarter cut, the wavy pattern appears as lustrous bars across the veneer leaf. Take time to appreciate these beautiful features available in timber veneer in Australia from  Matilda Veneer, and try to incorporate them in your projects to provide them unique look and feel.

Excellent consistency of colour and matches

A variety of timber veneers in Australia are available at Matilda Veneer that include reconstructed veneer, retoned veneer, and prefinished veneer. Reconstructed veneer is typically made from plantation grown wood, such as obeche, poplar and bamboo. The logs are rotary peeled into veneers which is then dyed and dried. Layers of coloured veneers are laminated together in moulds to form grain patterns which are then re-sliced into veneers. Reconstructed veneer has excellent consistency in colour, and can be easily matched with the same patterns.

Retoned sliced veneer

Retoned sliced veneer is made from light coloured woods, such as Tasmanian oak, Maple and Tulip, which is dyed to produce artificially coloured veneers. The timber veneer in Australia is then pressure-treated for maximum penetration of the colour. Because the veneer is coloured all the way through, retoned sliced veneer can be easily sanded or touched up during manufacturing. Different portions of a project can be fabricated using retoned sliced veneer, maintaining colour consistency throughout the project.

Pre-finished timber veneer

Pre-finished timber veneer in Australia may be plain natural veneer, stained or limed natural veneer, dyed or reconstructed veneer. The veneer face may be sanded smooth or have an enhanced grain texture, such as sand blasting. The face is finished with a clear coating. The finishing process of sliced veneer used by Matilda Veneer provides consistency across projects. The specifiers can understand the texture of the sliced veneer they wish to specify and also see the final finish beforehand. Pre-finished sliced veneer is more resistant to scratch than ordinary polished veneer panels and can be bent around curves.

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