Natural Timber Veneer - Overivew

Natural Timber Veneer

Timber is an extremely versatile material that is utilised in society for any number of purposes ranging from paper production, through to construction and from bio energy to MDF. Of all its many uses, the most highly value added use is for the production of architectural timber veneer.

Fethers Architectural timber veneer is 0.6mm thick meaning that one tree might produce anywhere up to 10,000m² of veneer.

To produce veneer, only the best of the best logs in any given species are utilized. In the veneer mill, the logs are sliced in such away to maximize the visual aspect of the finished product.  In our range of Natural Timber Veneer you will find the full gambit of beauty that timber has to offer including:

Figured Veneers

Burl Veneers

Pommele Veneers

Quilted Veneers

Birdseye Veneers

The luster and allure of natural timber veneer can not be recreated by a man made product.

Fethers Veneer also offers a broad range of burls.  Burls are the swollen out growths which appear on trees, sometimes below ground, caused by an injury to the tree at an early stage when it’s still a sapling. These have the appearance of tightly clustered dormant buds, with darker pith, forming tiny knot formations like amass of small eyes, with swirling, contorted veins and lines surrounding them.

The production of veneer from burls is the most challenging of all types of veneer manufacture.

Burl Veneer is usually produced using a rotary peeler. Due to the random and varied shape of burls, the veneer produced is random and varied. Leaf size can vary from 40cm x 40cm up to200cm x 120cm depending on the species.  As a result when burl veneer is converted into finished panels, the veneer must be book matched along as well as across the panel producing a repeating pattern.

The term cluster applies to a burl which exhibits patches of burl interspersed with muscle wood creating a broader scaled pattern. Often clusters produce larger dimension veneer with greater amounts of sequence matching. We often recommend clusters for wall paneling applications.