TWO MSDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
F?iday, October 21. 1955
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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.
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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.
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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,
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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