1 £3,000 door

Most of the finest furniture ever produced will be veneered pieces from the 18th century, highly unlikely it will ever be bettered. Whilst I do not like the style or could ever afford a three grand door, from the perspective of manufacture I can understand why veneer is far superior to solid in this application.

When you see the adverts for 'oak furniture land' boasting about solid oak side tables or whatever, they really don't have a clue.
 
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jl10000 said:
Most of the finest furniture ever produced will be veneered pieces from the 18th century, highly unlikely it will ever be bettered. Whilst I do not like the style or could ever afford a three grand door, from the perspective of manufacture I can understand why veneer is far superior to solid in this application.

When you see the adverts for 'oak furniture land' boasting about solid oak side tables or whatever, they really don't have a clue.
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That isn't really the problem, it's the cost in addition to it being made from more sustainable materials.
 
maccapacca said:
It's a technical veneer which is hundreds of wood veneers laid then cross cut the opposite way. Very different to a standard veneer.

The mdf is routed and a hardwood inlay in glued in. It's then routed again and the veneer overlaid. A french polisher then makes the two edges good and dyes the hardwood inlay the same colour as the veneer.

Truly lovely truly expensive.
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Yes so they took a lump of mdf, and wanted a little feature to run across the board, so they routed out a gap, then as mdf doesn't reroute well, had to stick in actual hardwood into the hole they had made, then routed that, and then stuck veneer to the surfaces.
It all needed polished in to make the join lines not seem awful.

Obviously, one would need to see it in reality to judge it, but in cross section, it doesn't really impress me at all.
Its still an mdf veneered door.

Does this technique make the edges resistance to damage, chipping etc?
 
For £3K I'd want a portal to another dimension, with aliens & zombie cat things on the other side... Just Like the one I use to have in the hospital...;)

Never mind wood.
 
jl10000 said:
That door will also maintain that look in decades to come, solid will not.
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LOL, that door will be landfill when most Georgian/Victorian houses will still be standing.

What your looking at their is the "polystyrene roof tile/artex swirl" of the future.

Solid wood can be sanded down hundreds of times, my sash windows are testament to that!

Put a 3mm deep scratch on that door and see what you can do with it, nothing apart from bin it!

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London village ranging from 4 to 20m
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Ah that explains it, willy waving on who can puke up the most money on useless rubbish ;)

HEADRAT
 
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Hikari Kisugi said:
Obviously, one would need to see it in reality to judge it, but in cross section, it doesn't really impress me at all.
Its still an mdf veneered door.
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True.

However you have to consider the clients spec.

A panel that wide from solid will be glued up (AB walnut isn't easy to get in wide boards), can that be book matched like veneer? No. Can that panel be manufactured so it will never move within its environment and reveal it is glued up from multiple bits of solid? No.

It is not the sort of thing I produce as a woodworker, but the specs from some clients are enough to make me turn down work as they do not understand timber and push the limitations of what it can do.
 
HEADRAT said:
LOL, that door will be landfill when most Georgian/Victorian houses will still be standing.

What your looking at their is the "polystyrene roof tile/artex swirl" of the future.

Solid wood can be sanded down hundreds of times, my sash windows are testament to that!

Put a 3mm deep scratch on that door and see what you can do with it, nothing apart from bin it!



Ah that explains it, willy waving on who can puke up the most money on useless rubbish ;)

HEADRAT
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Well I appreciate your sentiments, I do not like the style. However MDF is probably the best substrate for veneers and if it is manufactured correctly the doors will last for centuries, as has all the best veneered furniture from any decent maker.
 
I once chipped the veener on a £130k vanity unit for an arab with incredibly poor taste. Luckily for me our carpenters did a lovely job of hiding it.
 
Surely people buying those apartments would throw up if they knew the doors were mostly MDF from B&Q! lol
 
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