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."
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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.
Its 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.
I 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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