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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
SUGGESTIONS REGARDING jTHE HEATING OF CORE STOCK
Core Stock Can Be Handled to Best Advantage When It Is Properly Heated—Extremes in
Temperature Should Be Avoided—Too Much Heat Injures the Quality of the Glue
There is a great diversity of opinion regard-
When we come in between these two ex-
ing the practice of heating core stock. Some tremes we find there are many advantages in
do not heat it at all, while the other extreme making the wood warm. In the first place,
is to heat it as hot as can comfortably be making the wood warm opens up the pores suf-
handled with the bare hands. In almost every- ficiently to give the glue a good hold, and when
thing there are two extremes toward which the wood cools down the pores are contracted,
men gravitate, and these extremes and the grav- which helps to increase its hold on the glue.
itation are ample evidence that both cannot be If glue is put on cold wood, the very opposite
r'g! t. The experience of the past has been that is liable to happen. In the various changes of
extremes in any direction are usually wrong, temperature the wood is liable to become
and that between these there lies a happy warmer than when the glue was put on, the
medium upon which one may safely build.
pores open up and lose their grip upon the
In the case under consideration it might be glue. In warm wood, therefore, is to be found
well to examine into the advantages or disad- the happy medium between the two extremes of
vantages which the extremes have to offer. Tn hot or cold.
the first place, what are the objections to hav-
ing the core stock heated to a high tempera-
FEATURING VENEERED CONSTRUCT!!
ture? asks Harvey Wilkes, in Veneers.
The adhesive quality of glue, when unpro- Veneering Should Not Be Used to Give the
tected by moisture, is very easily injured, and
pression That the Work Is Solid, But Rather
wl'en glue is spread upon a hot board the mois-
to Show the Beauty of the Veneer
ture is rapidly taken up by the wood, leaving
the glue, to a very large extent, without this
One of the ideas fostered by some of the
protection. Then when these boards are piled broad-minded architects of the country is that
one on top of the other, in all probability with you should show construction rather tlan con-
hot cauls between them, for the man who over- ceal it. In other words, that it adds to the qual-
heats his core is usually a believer in hot cauls, ity of architecture to make construction itself
the moisture is soon all driven from the glue a feature in architectural design. Architects
and the glue is left at the mercy of the sur- are inclined to follow the same idea in veneer-
rounding heat. And the effect of this heat is in- ing and argue that where work is veneered it
should be so done that the fact of veneer be-
tensified when the pressure is put on.
The only thing that can be considered an ad- ing used will be easily evident. To state it
vantage to offset the above is that the more another way, their idea is to display the fact
wood is heated the more the pores open up and of veneering rather than conceal it, and make
the deeper the glue can penetrate, which, under a panel or other veneered work appeal to the
normal conditions, ought to give it a better hold casual observer as if it were solid wood.
and make it more lasting. But the very thing
It is true, says Veneers, that those familiar
that allows it to penetrate deeply destroys its witli veneering can generally distinguish ve-
adhesive quality and defeats the very object for neered work from solid oak, for there are a
which the wood was heated. There is one other number of characteristic earmarks to guide the
danger. Wood thus heated is liable to drink in initiated. Also, it is true that in matched figures
all the glue and leave what is known as a and in crotches, any one at all familiar with the
"starved" joint—that is, a joint without sufficient work knows that it is built up and generally ve-
neered. Still, there is lots of wood work that,
glue to properly hold.
Then we come to the other extreme of putting to the casual observer, may be either veneered
the glue on cold wood. This really has no ad- or solid, and some of it is even difficult for the
vantage except that it may be more convenient experienced man to distinguish without a very
sometimes to use the wood without heating than close examination.
Since veneering is being advocated on its
to heat it.
merits structurally as well as on its face ap-
pearance, there should naturally be no desire
to conceal veneering with a view to deceiving
people and giving the impression that it is
solid work. On the other hand, there is ob-
CINCINNATI, O.
jection to making unnecessary exposure of
joints and joinery because, in a way, this often
Importers and Manufacturers of Figured
Mahogany and Foreign Woods for high- | | detracts from the beauty of a piece of work.
grade piano cases and cabinets.
It is well, however, to keep the fact in mind
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Neu> York Office and Sample Room = that the purpose of veneering is not to deceive,
but to improve the outside appearance of work
Grand Central Palace Bldg.
and to also improve work structurally. There
Lexington Ave. and 46th St.
may be occasions when it will add to the beau-
G. H. VAUGHAN, Eastern Representative
ty of work to make it easily evident it has
been veneered. On the other hand, there may
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be occasions when the nature of the work is
such that practically all evidence of veneer con-
struction is concealed by the work itself. In
either case, however, no effort should be made
at deception, but the efforts of veneer manufac-
turers and users should be directed toward the
exploitation of veneered work on its merits,
to the end that eventually one may seek for
veneer construction on the ground that it is a
better and not a deceptive, inferior piece of
work.
MEXICAN CO. IN BANKRUPTCY
Petition
Filed Against Hardwoods Corp.—
Mexican Difficulties the Cause
As a result of conditions in Mexico, a petition
in bankruptcy has been filed against the Mexi-
can Hardwoods Co., a $1,500,000 New York cor-
poration, by Melville E. Gray, former treasurer,
a creditor for $6,412.
The concern, which has offices at 30 Hast
Forty-second street, was incorporated in De-
cember, 1912, with $1,500,000 stock and an issue
of $800,000 mortgage bonds, to do timber cut-
ting on 120,000 acres in the State of Oaxaca,
Mexico, which had been owned by English in-
terests. Sydney H. Shadbolt, former president,
died in June, 1915, and the other officers re-
signed. The business has been inactive for
some time on account of the unsettled condi-
tions in Mexico and consequent difficulty in ob-
taining transportation for its timber.
Consult the universal Want Directory of
The Review. In it advertisements are inserted
free of charge, for men who desire positions.
One Reason
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for our continued suc-
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is the fact that we use
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Matawan Steel & Iron Co.
451 Communipaw Avenue, Jersey City, N. J.
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