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I used to buy .020" X 6" X 36" red dyed wood fiber veneer sheets from several suppliers. Now I can only find .010" red sheets at RC Tonewoods. Can anyone steer me to a supplier? Note, that I'm not looking for wood veneer, but wood fiber veneer. Thanks.

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michael propsom
www.propsomguitars.com

perhaps B&BR Rare Woods. They have a lot of colored stuff , although in my be dyed wood, some of it certainly is.

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Jim Watts
http://jameswattsguitars.com

Try this:

https://www.lmii.com/fiber-veneers/642- ... thick.html

edit - Sorry, only black and white available.

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Brian R, Wood Mechanic
N8ZED

He’s looking for red.

M

Great resource!

Thanks for the tip!

Best, M

Thanks for the suggestion on B&B. I've purchased red wood veneer from them. Checked and apparently they don't do wood fiber though. The search continues.

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michael propsom
www.propsomguitars.com

Just a note on B&B: good veneer, good prices, good service. If you are looking for red, their red is much brighter than the red you get from LMII. It was a bit too pinkish for me. The other colors are great, though.

I found these guys.

http://www.hkpaper.us/vulcalite.html

I have used these guys several times. Great service. I see they carry redwood burl.
https://www.veneersupplies.com/categori ... __N__-__Z/

Thanks for finding these folks! I e-mailed them to see about buying some of the 0.020" thick red Vulca-Lite. I'll share info when I hear back.

There's also these guys.

https://www.polymerplastics.com/composite_vulcan.shtml

B&B offers the red veneer I was looking for, nice price too. Eight dollars, roughly. But the shipping? Fourteen dollars. Free shipping starts at a hundred. Gotta think.

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Peter Havriluk

You just need to find friends who want $92 worth of fiber veneer. . . start asking your neighbors. Or better yet, get them hooked on guitar making

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Bryan Bear PMoMC

Take care of your feet, and your feet will take care of you.

I went ahead and spent the hundred ($100.07) to get the free shipping and a 10% volume break. For that I got 17 sheets of .6mm veneer, a minimum of 36”x 5”. Some of them are 11” wide. That’s gonna make a sh*t-ton of purflings in entertaining colors!

Cheers, M

I contacted HK Paper (USA) about the red Vulca-Lite fiber. Here is what I was told:

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Hello Don,

We have a full line distributor who keeps sheets of many thicknesses of Red VF in stock.

Please contact ESPE MFG Co. in IL. 847-678-8950

They also stock our Black, Gray, Blue and a little White.

Thanks,

Bob Zembower
Sales Manager
HK Paper (USA), Inc.
(302)-475-3699

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When someone was ending their scrap veneer selling business they offered their leftovers to me, free for the taking. He was giving up the unit he was renting and it had to be cleared out that day. I only brought a pickup truck and loaded up a homemade veneer press he gave me and only had room for about a tenth of the veneer. I took a lot of the nicer exotic pieces and a few burl sheets. He suggested I take a bunch of long sheets 6 to 8 inches wide dyed various colors - red, green, blue , yellow, black, etc., but I couldn't think of what I could possibly use them for. D'oh - about half way home I thought - purfling lines - a million miles of purfling lines!
Oh well, I bet they went in a dumpster with a lot of other nice veneer.

Wow Clay! Judging by the BRZ veneer of yours I've seen that's a real loss.

Hi John,
The BRW veneer was what I had been buying from him. There were a lot of figured veneers (non rosewood) and some curly mahogany types. If I had it to do over again I would have put the veneer press off to the side and loaded up the truck with all the stuff I left behind.
Here is the back of a guitar I built with some of the veneer I got:

HK Paper looks promising. Thanks for the info, Michael C: Update: I just checked out Espe Manufacturing's website. They don't have red sheets of vulcanized cellulose fiber in .020" but they have it in .015" which I think might look even better than the .020 I'd purchased from other sources. Thanks Don Parker.

https://electrical-insulation.espemfg.c ... bre-sheets

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michael propsom
www.propsomguitars.com

No problem, Michael. Actually, on the ESPE website, look at the rolls of fiber instead of the sheets. They have red that is 0.020” thick.

I think HK Paper is sending me some small samples, so I can see it in person before buying from ESPE. I will share info after I receive the samples.

Just a report back on the samples I received from HK Paper:

The quality of the fiber looks very good. The color of the blue is useful, as is the tan, the white, and the black. However, the red looks a lot more like burnt orange than red. It's just not useful as a substitute for the LMI red veneer that I like so much.

I had mentioned above that the B&B Exotic Wood colored veneers are very bright. That's awesome if you want bright. For me, the bright red was so bright that it was nearly pink. I prefer darker.

So, I think I need to stick with the LMI red veneer sheets for now, when what I want is a very red red.

We buy our red veneer , intense lipstick red from certainly veneer in aurora N.Y.