A birch ply alternative found?

[Sachakins]

Google is giving it at £60 a sheet for 18mm 8x4.

Can you give the link please, can't find 18mm anywhere near that price for a 8x4 sheet.

 

[TRITON]

For the STRETEK

No sorry, just googled the ply itself not a specific type.

 

[Sean33]

Hi,

My local timber yard obviously can't supply baltic birch plywood at the moment. Asking them about alternatives that are pretty and consistent enough for furniture where the ply cross section is exposed they've offered the below. Anyone know anything about this? Visually, it looks good to me from the pictures. I'm going to order one of the poplar boards to test.

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Thanks,
Ben.

If you are happy with bb/bb grade if you try J Guard and sons or Lathams they have stock, well they did a few weeks ago.
I had to make a quite large run of cabinets in ply, found the poplar a little soft, the grade I used does have plugs to one side but just made sure that was not seen.

 

[benhen31]

Ah, yes, normal ply can be found for those prices or better at a local yard. It's the fancy STRETEK that's a bit pricey if you need it to be a birch ply exposed furniture grade substitute that looks as good as the baltic stuff.

STRETEK do now have a birch faced option as well as the poplar wchi they didn't when I bought the first sheet.

At some point I'll certainly try the STRETEK birch faced ply.

 

[Spectric]

Is it just Birch ply causing people supply issues ? I am finding the quality of C16 and C24 is getting dire, probably ok for site builders but when it is twisted more than 10 degrees or bowed by 3 inches to me it is scrap.

 

[TTS]

Looks good, never seen it myself. Do you have a price?

You can buy it here
https://armstrongsupplies.co.uk/products/birch-plywood-18mm

 

[paulrbarnard]

I can’t tell if the face veneer is thick or thin. The website images are very low quality and I wonder if that is deliberate. Anyone know?

 

[BucksDad]

On the stretek website, it says "thick face veneers" with a tick next to it

 

[paulrbarnard]

On the stretek website, it says "thick face veneers" with a tick next to it

Looking at the images of Stretek though they look a lot thinner than the face on Birch Ply.
I guess there is no definition of thick and thin.
The plys don’t look to be uniform thicknesses in some of the images too.

 

[Jameshow]

Is it just Birch ply causing people supply issues ? I am finding the quality of C16 and C24 is getting dire, probably ok for site builders but when it is twisted more than 10 degrees or bowed by 3 inches to me it is scrap.

Yeap most us half in growth ring rubbish. The CLS us still ok, as I expect is anything above 6 inches. You could rip some 8x2 into 4x2 if you really wanted too..