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The veneer shop floor from the bench: the press at center, racks of veneer beyond, faces laid out on the tables.

Walk the floor.

From inventory to the truck, in the order a panel is made.

Shop walkthrough


The veneer storage wall: flitches racked to the ceiling, each bundle tagged, a forklift and a shop hand pulling one down.
Bundles stacked on the rack by the dock, each one tagged with its number.

01

Inventory

Every job starts here. A flitch is chosen for the job, and if the drawings name a flitch number, it is held against the order.

A shop hand feeding flitches through the seamer, the joined face coming off the far side.

02

Seaming in progress

The seamer joins the flitches edge to edge into one face, ready to be glued and pressed.

Three shop hands at the bench with a flitch of leaves, the press behind them.
Clipped leaves stacked on the bench, edges squared, ready to be joined.

03

Quality check

The flitches are laid up to match the specification the job calls for and checked against the plans before going to the press.

The press, platen open, ready for the next panel.

04

Our pressing process

Adhesive is rolled onto the substrate before the face is placed onto the panel and once applied to the correct thickness the panel goes into the press.

A panel going through the wide-belt sander.

05

Our sanding process

Off the press, a panel goes through the wide-belt sander. Calibrated panels come off it at a stated thickness, the same across the whole run.

The heads of the brushing machine, a shop hand at the controls.

06

Wire brushing

Wire brushing runs on the same line, at the depth the spec names. The brushed face is raised along the grain and stays that way under finish.

An eighteen-foot walnut panel standing on end against the shop's white brick wall, a man beside it for scale.
A long veneered panel on the bench, three shop hands at its far end.
A demonstration panel on the cork bench: figured maple finger-jointed to walnut, the tapered fingers of one species running into the other.

07

One face at any length

A unique seaming process that allows us to make a panel at any length.

A full-height dark walnut door with fine metal inlay lines, set beside a pale figured oak wall.
A tall pale oak slab door with vertical grooves, slid open to a bedroom.
A tall slab door in warm walnut veneer, set flush in a white wall.
A pale rift oak door with a small dark knob, closed in a plaster wall.

08

Doors

Slab doors, veneered faces, jambs and edgebanding come off the same floor as the panels.

The Miller Veneer Products flatbed backed in beneath the panel racks, a stacked panel in the foreground.
A forklift lifting a stack of wrapped panels onto the flatbed at the open roller door.

09

Delivery

Panels are stacked, wrapped, loaded on our truck, and shipped out the door for delivery.

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