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Hey, guys. I seek the voice of wisdom and experience from the woody hive mind here.
I'm getting ready to build a replica old-time ice box to use as a liquor cabinet. Specifically, this one:
I'm building it out of red oak -- at least all the rails and splines and so on. The panels? Well, despite the image Rockler uses, the plans call for plywood panels in the doors and sides. I don't mind using a good birch plywood for the back, bottom, and internals, but I want the face of the panels to match, and take the same stain the same way.
I can't find 3/8" red oak ply around here, so I've been debating between either using 1/4" birch ply with an overlay of red oak veneer (as the instructions suggest) or having 6" wide 4/4 planks resawn in half, glued up into wider panels, and then planed down to 3/8".
Either is doable, but I lack re-saw facilities and don't want to plane down 4/4 all the way to 3/8" -- what a waste.
Rockler and Woodcraft both have paper-backed veneer (WC at 1/42" and R at 1/62" -- I prefer the thicker stuff), and self-adhesive. Would those be okay for a project such as this?
Barring that... is there anyone here in the central Indiana (Franklin, Greenwood, Indianapolis) who might be willing to resaw some planks for me in return for some dead president portraits and beer?
Tony
I'm getting ready to build a replica old-time ice box to use as a liquor cabinet. Specifically, this one:

I'm building it out of red oak -- at least all the rails and splines and so on. The panels? Well, despite the image Rockler uses, the plans call for plywood panels in the doors and sides. I don't mind using a good birch plywood for the back, bottom, and internals, but I want the face of the panels to match, and take the same stain the same way.
I can't find 3/8" red oak ply around here, so I've been debating between either using 1/4" birch ply with an overlay of red oak veneer (as the instructions suggest) or having 6" wide 4/4 planks resawn in half, glued up into wider panels, and then planed down to 3/8".
Either is doable, but I lack re-saw facilities and don't want to plane down 4/4 all the way to 3/8" -- what a waste.
Rockler and Woodcraft both have paper-backed veneer (WC at 1/42" and R at 1/62" -- I prefer the thicker stuff), and self-adhesive. Would those be okay for a project such as this?
Barring that... is there anyone here in the central Indiana (Franklin, Greenwood, Indianapolis) who might be willing to resaw some planks for me in return for some dead president portraits and beer?
Tony