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Monday, February 23, 2009
Plastic-Covered Plywood
Toolmonger: "The selection of engineered building materials available to contractors and the general public gets bigger and better every year — there’s melamine, plywood, Baltic birch plywood, chipboard, MDO, MDF, particle board, phenolic, and more. One of the relative newcomers, phenolic-faced plywood looks to be a good combination of stability, strength, and water resistance."
Wow, plastic covered plywood sounds amazing but at $60 a sheet I'm not buying anytime soon. I would imagine though that this material would be great in a set with a body of water in it.
ReplyDeleteIts sweet that the wood has the structural strength and can be used for more applications. It is still a tad pricey but its nice that you can use all the regular wood working tools on it.
ReplyDeleteI think that there are far cheaper ways of creating the effect you're looking for using different materials. Want to have a giant water basin made of ply? How about polyurethane? Or maybe pool lining? I have a feeling that there are better solutions to this - beside a $40 piece of pigmy-ply.
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