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TWO MSDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE F?iday, October 21. 1955 G Do-lt-Yourself is Easy With Plywood Furniture Making Five new build-with-plywood furniture plans from the board of a top New York designer of fer the "do-it-your-self" enthus iast project which will add sparkle to any home's furnish ings. You can get these plans free from the Douglas Fir Plywood EASE AND WALL CABINETS Build this striking modern buffet and wall cabinet set from small panels of fir plywood avaiable at your lumber dealers. Easy-to-follow plans by New York designer available from the DFPA. MODERN DESK With its simple, straight forward lines, this easy-to-build fir plywood desk is an ideal weekend project for the ambitious home craftsman. Legs are simple sections of plumber's pipe set into holes drilled in framing or screwed to floor flanges. Plans available free from Douglas Fir Plywood association, at Tacoma 2, Wash. m PLYWOOT Contributes to the Prosperity and Stability of the Bedford Area The fir plywood industry as a major payroll builder in this area is well known. In addition to direct wages, the industry also spends thousands of dollars yearly for supplies, services, taxes, licenses, fees. Every store, every office, every service sta tion, every bank, every public utility in this area-benefits either directly or indirectly from the fir plywood industry in our locality. The business of manufacturing fir plywood is 50 years old this year, so we are happy to join the Nation's salute to this $370,000,000 West Coast industry. And we have faith that as new markets . .. new uses .. . are developed for fir plywood, our region will continue to grow and prosper. o Medford f Pan ol .j.--! lions n 'sra '55l Association at Tacoma 2, Wash. DFPA is the quality maintenance and control organization of west ern fir plywood manufacturers. All of their plans are builder tested and are designed for max imum simplicity of construction to gain the highest appearance value. , .. , z . . n so plan ro attend. Veener and Plywood Corp. The plans by Norman Cherner typify the modern trend in free form design, yet maintain a basic utility which fits them to a wide variety of decorator needs. They are adapted for construc tion without waste from the smaller cuts of plywood sold as "Handy Panels." This means they are economical to build and will not tax the ability of a rank duffer. The clean simplicity of the designs and the ease with which they may be maintained will be attractive to the home maker. In the list are: A flat desk suitable for in clusion in the living area decor, a six-drawer vanity chest with tipup mirror and cosmetics box, a coffee tableplanter designed as a week-end project, a base and wall cabinet combination to add storage space in the dining room or wherever else it may be needed, and a low table suitable as an end table or bedside stand. All of the pieces have a func tional reality about them which make them a pleasure to view. Alternate details provided in the standard plans adapt these fur niture units to various decorator needs and differing ability of home craftsmen. None of the units should take longer than a weekend to build, even for the "first-time" amateur. Basic tools: hammer, saw, brace and bits, plans, square and screw driver will suffice. Each plan includes a materials list to simplify your order. Douglas fir plywood is made from superior grade logs known in the industry as "peelers." Most peelers must be at least 30 inches in diameter. A large good grade peeler can in many cases be peeled into a thin strip of veneer many hundreds of feet long. END TABLE This striking little fir plywood end table can be paired up for opposite ends of a sofa or used in the bedroom as a bedside table. Its clean, modern design means it will fit both con temporary or traditional room settings. BIG FREE SHOW To commemorate fir plywood's 50th anniversary, a colorful circus-typo exposition, has been arranged, , and will appear at Medford High Stadium, Saturday and Sunday. This show will entertain, will inform, will show how fir plywood can add to your living pleasure when used around your home . . . indoors or outdoors. There's something of interest for all ages, ".it! rr-1 1 iWlftiTTffiiitirin&r,a.ii nminrt--rimminmmmm-mmmm mi ill FLASHING SPORT FISHERMEN such as this one are built of fir -plywood because it gives more boat for the money and provides construction advantages available in no other Plywood Versatility Proven In Construction of Boats Fishermen and plywood boats go together like ham and eggs, like hotcaks and syrup, like a trout-hungry Isaac Walton and opening day of the season. Fir plywood is the basic ma terial in boats from six- foot pram dinghies through outboard runabouts, cruisers and sailboats, charter fishing vessels plying the gulf stream, flashing Gold Cup racers and on up to 60-foot deep sea tuna clippers. And here are some of the rea sons: First, the big panels cover wide areas, shortening construc tion time, . and reducing seam area and number of fastenings required. Cross-grained bonding veneers makes the panels split proof, virtually puncture-proof and dimensionally stable.- This means greater strength with less weight and at a sizable reduc tion in cost. Plywood boats are simpler and require less setting - up time. Standardized assembly line methods can be used with plywood hulls at much lower cost than conventional boat buil ding. Most kit boats are designed for plywood simplicity this ma terial allows. The big panel cov erage, ease of standardization, mean that an amateur can finish a kit-boat before he gets discour aged. The complicated layout work has been solved for him and he can finish the project with only simple tools. In the do-it-yourself field, the acceptance of fir plywood as a boat building material has gain ed a new meaning in recent years. More and more top mar ine architects have been design ing for this material. This means the amateur can build a plywood boat of fine-lines, seaworthy, strong and durable. Fir plywood is stocked by lum ber yards throughout the coun try, but good planking lumber, properly seasoned is usually handled by only a few specialty yards. Exterior plywood for boat building as a general rule costs less than, or more no than, good boat lumber. (Only plywood with waterproof glue should be used on a boat and the proper grade should be selected for the job. Look for the edge brand "EXTDFPA". That means wat erproof glue. Under no circum stances should an interior type of plywood be used on a boat even for bulkheads or in the cabin.) More than 500 plywood boat kits were sold by one Seattle dealer alone in 1951. TOtH WE EXTEND KIE!AP(B!aJAC5En5S ffor o . M. C. TRUCES' o INDUSTRIAL EQUIPMENT u u u u zs 3610 N. Pacific Highway is . marine building material better strength f or-weight ratio, nd caulking of seams, no wa ter absorption. The material also lends itself readily to mass production. Backyard Builders May Receive Help From DFPA Plans Backyard boat builders with that "it's-time-to-build" feeling may find the plan of their dreams available free from the Douglas Fir Plywood Association at Ta coma 2, Wash. DFPA has eight basic plans in stock now, more in production. All have been builder-tested and are from the boards of promi nent naval architects. The plans are complete, simple, contain all instructions needed for building. In addition to the stock plans, DFPA can provide you with a directory of more than 400 boat plans suitable for plywood con struction. They include a wide selection: tenders, dinghies and sailing dinghies, rowboats and outboards, outboard racing craft and cruisers, inboard runabouts, small sailboats, ' auxiliaries and commercial boats and miscellan eous craft. Available directly from DFPA are plans for a T 9" pram dinghy, 9' skiff, 11' skiff, 13W out board, 1ZW inboard, 15' sailboat, 20' sailboat, and a plywood pon toon suitable for boat dock or diving raft. DFPA also can pro vide you with two small pam phlets giving excellent tips on plywood for marine construction, All, of the boat plans for ply wood are characterized by easy and speedy construction. They are designed for durability and minimum upkeep. A postcard to DFPA will get you the plan you desire. OM plywood2; mss OF GROWTH and PROGRESS Within a span of 50 years, this Industry has grown from nothing to a $370,000,000 per year giant . . . and is still growing! This industry is becoming increasingly important to the economy of Medford and Jackson County. Members of that industry are good neighbors of ours and yoursl We salute theml R TEST PIECES of fir plywood without paint finish of any kind placed on industry exposure fences to subject them to actual weathering conditions over the past 15 years have established that Douglas Fir Plywood Association laboratory procedures actually do'determine'glue-line durability. . , 'Torture-Tests' Prove Use Of Plywood Out-of -Doors Tne weatherman says Tain says snow" says "sleet and hail" says "sunshiny and dry" say "hot and humid". . . It's all the same to the fir ply wood on the two exposure fences maintained by the Doug las Fir Plywood Association for Remodeling Gives Houses 'New Face' The exterior of "this old house" was beginning to look like the one in the song. A. E. Corey of Tacoma, Wash., the owner, took a good long look at his residence: It was a big, two-story house with shingle ex terior. After twenty years, the shingles looked well, twenty years old. . Corey went to his lumber deal er, Neil Gray of Gray Lumber Company in Tacoma, studied various possibilities. He settled on wide-lapped exterior fir ply wood for a new shell, picking the material because of its fine appearance and because of ease and economy of application. Gray supplied Vi inch Ply shield grade siding ripped to 21- inch widths and already bevel ed to provide a drip-edge. The siding was primed before appli cation and applied right over the old shingles. A -inch fur ring strip of plywood between laps created an effectively heavy shadowline. The widths went on horizon tally with a 3-inch overlap and an 18-inch exposed surface. The finished job gives Corey his comfortable old home with a modern face ready for an other twenty years of living. 5 1 TRACTOR It : -IT i-iiiiiMi Xlhmu m member mills of the west coast industry. The proof of the pudding is In the eating, and the proof of a building material no matter how good the laboratory says it is rests in how well that ma terial stands up in use. The Douglas Fir Plywood As sociation's laboratories subject samples of plywood panels to torture tests" which are prob ably as grueling as any applied to a building material. But the manufacturers want to be cer tain that their association grade- trademarks have real signifi cance in the building trades.' That's where exposure fences come into the picture. Companion pieces to the speci mens tested in DFPA labora tories are placed outside on per manent exposure fences east and west of the Cascade mountains. These fir plywood samples are subjected to the freezing, the snows and rains of winter, and to the burning sun of summer and to all of the "incidental" weather between. It's the same treatment an ex posed piece of plywood would experience on a building only these pieces of plywood are not protected by paint. Results of regular inspections of the exposed specimens are compared with laboratory tests. This program has confirmed that the labortory testing is actually more severe than exposure to weather. There is a margin of safety. That margin of safety in qual ity control of fir plywood pro duced to the DFPA standards is an unwritten addition to every DFPA grade-trademark on a panel of plywood. Y Plywood is an excellent bass f or linoleufn. Phone 2-5278 CO.
