I love it when a plan comes together! Sometimes it just don't!!!
Update on the veneer. The original supplier that I located here that could manufacture paperback veneer from raw veneers called a couple of days later after I went up, selected, sequenced the flitches to say that their flexer ( the machine they crush the finished sheets so they become flexible enough to wrap around radiused corners) was malfunctioning.
They were experiencing problems with certain veneers forming cracks and the veneer seams were not holding up. They did not want to assume the liability if our veneer cracked during the tenderizing process. This was not a risk we could take.
There are not a ton of suppliers for this type of service, but we have 2 or 3 others here locally. It took a lot of phone tag, photographs being emailed before I found who could provide the service and had visually pleasing rosewood on hand.
I was scheduled to go visit Precision Veneers in Brantford (fortunately only about 1 hour away) to sequence the veneers and sign off on the order, but we had a freak snow/ice storm that morning. The roads were a mess till the weekend. Today I finally made it out there and was able to select and sequence the veneers.
Needless to say, this was very frustrating as it has held us up in getting to the finishing stages of John's speakers. Precision Veneers is going to try and rush my order and have the finished sheets in my hands by Friday.
Because of the off the shelf rosewood veneers being less than visually pleasing, and the difficulty in finding matched pairs, we were forced to go through all this drama. Fun,fun.
Here's the veneer that we chose and the sequence.
More pics to follow, as usual.
Cheers
