This is why most plywood furniture is finished with a veneer on the edge.ģ.
With the grain running at 90 degrees to the next piece, this causes issues with finishing edges. It's multiple layers, this means in humidity and temperature changes each layer expands and contracts differently. However, having said that, you are not likely to EVER find a piece of solid wood in the same dimension as a piece of plywood.Ģ. It's expensive, far more expensive than solid wood of the same dimensions. Because it is usually cut as veneers and can be cut as a sheet around the circumference of a tree, LARGE sheets are possible (4x8 foot or better)ġ. It fills the grain between the pieces rendering a VERY dense wood.Ĥ. It is very dense, you have multiple thin layers of wood saturated with a glue and pressed and steamed together. Chances are a piece of plywood will not warp, or rather, it is far less likely to warp than a piece of solid wood of the same dimensions.ģ. A piece of 1/2" fir plywood is probably 10X stronger than a piece of 1/2" solid fir, by comparrison, a piece of 1/2" fir plywood is probably stronger than a piece of 1/2" solid maple.Ģ. It is very strong, stronger than a comparable size of solid wood. Ok, now that's by definition and it's not want we consider plywood, I realize that.ġ. If you put a maple cap on it's Plywood, if you join two pieces it's plywood.
So, by definition, ANY guitar composed of multiple pieces of wood is a plywood guitar. So I thought, well, lets take an educated look at plywood in guitar building.Ī structural material made of layers of wood glued together, usually with the grains of adjoining layers at right angles to each other. Ok, so Darren and I were talking about plywood the other night, and I brought it up in another post.
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