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How veneer is a face not a fake by itself

Veneer is a thin slice of real wood glued on as a face, not a picture of wood.

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From the opening

Veneer is a thin sheet sliced, sawn, or peeled from a log, so it is the same species and the same grain as a thicker board from that tree. It becomes a face when it is glued to a ground, and the thinness is a way of using the wood, not a substitute for it. The opening covers a thin slice of real wood, the ground does the thickness, and prints are not veneer.

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A thin slice of real wood
The ground does the thickness
Prints are not veneer
The core can still be misdescribed
Where the idea stops applying
A distinction worth keeping

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Sliced wood veneer on a ground
Marquetry as pictures in real wood

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How veneer is a face not a fake by itself

From the opening

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