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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
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STAINING VENEER BEFORE USING
Lumber and Veneers
The Only Method for Preventing Damage to
Glue Joints and Face Stock—More Uniform
Effects Possible—Steam Pressure Utilized.
The idea of staining veneer to get the desired
color, before gluing it up, so as to get away from
the chance of damage to glue joints of face stock,
from using water or acid stains after the stock is
glued, has been advanced. It sounds a bit like a
finely-drawn, impractical theory, and yet it is a
theory that has recently been put into practice in
other lines. If in other lines, with solid lumber,
ihen why not with veneer?
The process is a little on the order of fuming
lumber in a closed box, in that it takes the place of
it for certain work, and has a much wider range
of possibilities. It is the use of steam under pres-
sure to which is added ammonia, to get '"fumed"
effects, and with which it seems practical to use
many different coloring agents to get a variety of
stained effects. It consists essentially of enclosing
the stock to lie treated in a boiler shell and turn-
ing live steam into it at a pressure varying from
ten to fifty pounds to the square inch, injecting into
\* whatever coloring matter is wanted and leaving
it stand for about six hours when one inch lumber
is used. Then the steam is turned off, the stock
taken out and dried.
Experiments have shown that mahogany can be
given a much deeper and more uniform color by
steaming in this way, and can be brought up to al-
most any color shade desired by the use of am-
monia or other coloring matter; oak is made more
uniform in color and can be darkened or reddened
to almost any degree wanted, says Veneers. These
are the main woods that have been experimented
with so far, but it is evident that the same idea
should be applicable to many other woods. And
since it is practical with lumber, why not with face
veneer? Why not take this method of staining,
and not only get rid of the danger to glue joints
that comes from staining glued-up stock, but at
the same time get a face veneer that is colored
through and through, and has depth as well as sur-
face color?
In the experiments with lumber live steam was
used under pressure. Whether or not the same
effects could be produced by using exhaust steam,
or steaming in an enclosed box without pressure,
there is room for argument and need for experi-
ments. In fact, there is quite a lot of argument
these days among the lumber people about the use
of steam with and without pressure, and about the
effects it has on certain woods. It is claimed that
any kind of steaming helps uniform the color in
oak and deepen the tone of mahogany, and some
claim that it darkens the wood a little.
If exhaust steam should prove to be practically
as good as live steam under pressure in this work,
it should be practical to treat veneer in boxes on
the order of the regulation steaming boxes for pre-
paring blocks for the veneer machine. Another
thing that suggests itself is that the drykilns, using
a steaming compartment at the receiving end, might
have the ammonia or staining element added and
do the staining right there, so that when the stock
comes through the kiln it will be ready to work.
The whole idea is still more or less in the experi-
mental stage, and it is difficult to predict just what
will come from it. However, it should be a matter
of interest to the veneer-using trade to see a thing
of this kind developing, and should naturally result
in a number of personal experiments that will in
time bring out a lot of new ideas and eventually
result in material progress.
ASTORIA VENEER MILLS & DOCK CO.
BIRD'S-EYE VENEER CO.,
ASTORIA, L. I. N. Y.
Custom mills for band and veneer
sawing; slice and rotary cutting of
Mahogany, Circassian and Fancy
Woods.
ESCANABA, MICH.
THE E. L. CHANDLER CO.,
ORLEANS, VT.,
Rotary-cut Rock Maple, for Piano
Pin Blocks. We also manufacture
Birch and Maple Panels.
Mfrg. of Bird's-eye Maple and plain
wood for Piano Linings.
HENRY S. HOLDEN,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
Cross-banding Veneers in Poplar,
Gum and Birch. Rock Maple for
Rest Plank. Piano Lining in Maple
and Mahogany.
HOFFMAN BROTHERS CO.,
Established 1887.
Incorporated 1904.
FORT WAYNE, INDIANA.
Specialties, Hardwood, Veneers, and
Lumber for Musical Instruments.
NARTZIK
red and Rotary Cut Veneeri
Plain Sawed
1966 Maud Ave.,
CHICAGO, ILL.
Soft Poplar and Gum Cross-band-
ing. Hard Maple Pin Block Stock.
Hird's-eye or l'lain Linings.
WASLE FACILITIES FOR LUMBER SEASONING.
Factory Well Equipped with Dry Kilns While Adjoining Large Lumber Yard Gives Wasle &
Co. Advantages in Guaranteeing Good Service and Satisfactory Product.
Seasoning of lumber which is used in the con-
struction of piano actions is one of the most im-
portant features toward the ultimate success of
the product. This is one of the reasons why the
great attention is paid to the lumber and its sca-
Factory and Lumber Yard of Wasle & Co.
ot the office building and adjoining the lumber
yard are two dry kilns, one which holds 30,000
feet of lumber at one time and another which
holds 20,000 action rails, sufficient to keep the plant
going for a considerable period.
Brown Place and 133d Street, New York.
soiling at the plant of Wasle & Co., 133d street
and Brown place, New York, where the Wasle
piano actions are manufactured. In the accom-
panying illustration there is shown the lumber
\ard to the left of the factory. Here over 500,000
feet of lumber are kept on hand at all times. Back-
With these facilities the company is in a posi-
tion to have at its disposal at all times the
properly seasoned lumber for making up thou-
sands of actions, guaranteeing to its customers
the best of service, besides satisfaction in the con-
struction of the product.
DEMAND ANTITRUST HALT.
ber of the executive branch of the Government he
would have no power to influence legislation, but
he assured the delegation that the present adminis-
tration was pledged to the enactment of construct-
ive measures based on sound business principles.
Pacific Coast Lumbermen, Before Redfield, Ask
Right to Pool.
PORTLAND,
(Special to The Review.)
ORE., March 31.—Lumbermen and
hankers appeared before Secretary of Commerce
kedtield to-day and asked his support in opposing
such pending national legislation against trusts, as
might interfere with the development of foreign
trade. The delegation desired that no laws be
passed by Congress aimed at restraint of trade
which would prevent pooling of the Pacific Coast
lumbermen in exploiting foreign lumber markets.
The reason given was that no individual operator
could possibly undertake to invade European or
other markets alone, but that if the industry, as a
whole, were allowed to pool its interests the world
markets could be successfully invaded.
Secretary Redfield replied that as he was a mem-
(). B. Howard is manager of the branch store
recently opened in Southbridge, Mass., by the
Hates-Mitchell Piano Co., of Boston.
Piano Manufacturers Z
soft yellow poplar for cross band-
Ing is unapproached in this country.
A large supply always on hand.
The Central Veneer Co., Huntington, W. Va.
INVISIBLE HINGES
Especially adapted
f o r Player-Piano,
Pianos and Organs
Very easily a n d
quickly attached.
Made in six sizes.
Tmll M M
SOSS MFG. CO.
435 Atlantic Ave.
Brooklyn, N Y.
Stud for Cmtalofut No. J.8#.