What Is The Method of Peeling Veneer?

Veneer can be sliced in a variety of ways, yielding varying grain patterns. MuTian offers a range of choices for cutting wood veneer. Rotating cutting on hard and soft woods such as birch, beech, alba, and meranti is possible with our technology.

Choosing us offers you two benefits. First of all, MuTian provides quality machinery for making veneer, and our higher output ensures a competitive purchase price.

Production Equipment

Types of Cuts

Lathe Peeling or Full Round Rotary Slicing

Rotating slicing involves spinning a full round log on a lathe as a blade cuts through it. Rotary cutting, sometimes referred to as "peeling," involves unrolling the log like a sheet to produce a lengthy veneer strip. This is the most economical method of cutting. When the board is laid over the growth ring layer, the pattern changes. Wide enough veneer can be produced by rotary cutting it into faces that are one piece and cover an entire sheet. The uneven grain patterns in this technique make it unsuitable for creating matching faces.

Burls and unusually patterned types, such as Sapele pommele and Birdsye Maple, are also treated with this technique. We cut the wood or burl at a particular location to produce veneer sheet sequences. When the blade reaches the center of the logs and burls, the sheets widen and eventually become thinner.

Half-Round Slicing

Half round slicing involves attaching and rotating a half, third, or quarter of a log using a plate on a lathe. This method widens a thin timber by increasing the incision's diameter. In some species of wood, half-round slicing is used to draw attention to the variety of grain. But, it can also be used to achieve a plain-sliced or flat veneer appearance.

Plain Slicing

Fancy veneer is mostly made by plain slicing, which involves placing a piece of a log, called a flitch, on a suction table with its heart facing away from the blade. Next, a cut parallel to the length of the log is made with the blade. The standard veneer appearance, known as the "cathedral" or flame-shaped arch, is produced by flat or plain slicing, which results in successive veneer leaves and represents plain sliced cherry, ash, oak, and other species.

This cut's homogeneous grain and flexibility to align leaf sequences make it ideal for furniture, doors, and wall panels.

Quarter Slicing

In order to have a veneer with an extremely straight grain, quarter-sliced veneer is frequently selected. A quarter log with growth rings perpendicular to the cutting blade is mounted on the vacuum flitch table. Quartered leaves are easier to line and are sliced in a row; they are thinner than plain slices.

Rift Slicing

This specific cut requires the largest diameter logs. However, quartered white oak is often sliced for its distinctive "flake" pattern, which is actually created by the veneer knife breaking the tree's visible medullary rays, which are radial patterns.

Rift slicing results in a straight grain pattern without the flake appearance seen in some species during quarter slicing. This method of cutting involves a "stay log lathe" that rotates to cut the wood. One fourth of the log is attached to a disk mounted on a rotating log stabilizer. By adjusting the blade and angle while rotating the flitch, the wood can be cut precisely to create a perfectly straight rift grain.

The wood that is most often recommended for this method is oak. You can ask for other wood species to be rift-cut, such as cherry, walnut, and maple, to get wider sheet widths. It is usual to choose rift grain to emphasize verticality because it is the straightest, lacks cathedrals and grain variations, and is easy to arrange and pair together.