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Lyptus
Lyptus wood offers a beautiful renewable green alternative to standard slow growing Cherry, Oak and Maple. It is a wood that is more dense than Cherry, Hard Maple, Mahogany, or Birch. The grain can vary quite a bit, so darker stains are recommended.
Veneers
Veneers offer an environmentally friendly approach by using a thin veneer, as opposed to solid wood construction. Solid timber is typically sawn into 1" thick boards. The saw cuts a kerf between boards 1/4" thick that winds up wasted as sawdust. Veneer is not cut from the log but sliced with a knife (like lunch meat) into 1/32" leaves or sheets. That produces 32 veneer surfaces for every 1 that is gotten from a board and with no wood wasted as sawdust, producing another 8 sheets where the saw blade would have gone. That's 40 surfaces of wood veneer for every 1 of solid wood.
Formaldehyde-free construction is available.
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