Oak edge glued panels
Oak edge glued panels are one of the most beautiful, rare and expensive materials up to now until carpenters.
Main reasons for use of edge glued panels from oak instead of solid oak wood piece:
- Surface quality. If you decide to use just a single board from a big oak log you will definitely face with some problems such as pippy, knots and sapwood. In production of edge glued panels pieces of oak have same quality.
- Size stability. By this case it means that solid piece of wood has different physical characteristics in width and length and it may be cause of such problem as shrinkage and by the way problems during drying of such boards in kiln increase respectively to size of boards.
More info about oak lumber quality and defects.
Here, we compare oak edge glued panels vs. plywood. Their parallels and differences.
There are usually two main variants of production.
- Finger-joint (FJ) boards. In that case board consists of numerous small lamellas (depends on board length) about 30-35 mm length which are joint in length with finger joints.
- Full stave (solid lamellas) boards, which means that lamellas have equal length with the board.
Lumber Elk OU provides clients only with full stave edge glued panels with thicknesses of 20 and 41 mm.
Grade A/B
Side A: No sapwood, 1-3 healthy knots, less than 3 mm.
Side B: Sapwood and small, healthy knots up to 10 mm.
The length can range from 1000 to 2400 mm.
