REFLECTOR:Luwan door????

[Jeffrey Clough]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <richard@riley.net>
To: <reflector@tvbf.org>; <reflector@tvbf.org>
Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 7:39 PM
Subject: Re: REFLECTOR:Luwan door????


> It's Luan.  It's a kind of wood, from the Philippines.  It's often sold as
> mahogany, but it seems it is the name given to a group of species that
> includes Lauan, Meranti, and others-none of which have any relation to
true
> Mahogany (Swietenia genus).
>
> They make "nice" interior plywood out of it, and use very thin luan
plywood
> to skin hollow core doors.
>
>
> At 08:08 PM 9/12/03 -0700, KeithHallsten wrote:
> >Chris,
> >I suspect the spelling is wrong, but what is referred to is a variety of
> >mahogany that is frequently used in the manufacture of interior wood
doors.
> >I don't believe that the intent is to get abnormally wide doors; the 36"
> >width is pretty good for most purposes.
> >Keith Hallsten
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "CBarber" <CBarber@texasattorney.net>
> >To: "Reflector@Tvbf.Org" <reflector@tvbf.org>
> >Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 7:50 PM
> >Subject: REFLECTOR:Luwan door????
> >
> >
> > > Sorry for another bone-head question.  But what the heck is a "Luwan
> >hollow
> > > core door?" The manual makes reference to it to lay the wing cores and
> > > I-beam on when you skin them, but I can not find a explanation of
Luwan on
> > > the net (except for a district in China).  The drawing in the manual
shows
> >a
> > > surface which it wider than the wing, but the doors I have from
HomeDepot
> > > are only 36 inches, not 50plus-ish inches.
> > >
> > > Andy Millin is one of the few builders with a website that is NOT
building
> >a
> > > fast build kit.  His pictures show plastic folding tables, but they
seem
> >to
> > > be too narrow.  Andy seemed to lick the problem, but I would imagine
with
> > > some effort.
> > >
> > > TIA,
> > >
> > > All the best,
> > >
> > > Chris
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Christopher Barber
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