[WWI] Plywood

[Helen and Chris]

Bless you, Merrill.

That makes a lot of sense.  I knew that spruce was used for spars, but only had a suspicion that it may have been used for ply - it was logical that it was.  Thank you for confirming.

Likewise with ash, which grows like a veritable weed!  At least it does in the UK.  But I can't think of a single tree in my locality (NW France).

Yew surprises me. It is sooooooooo slow growing, is not the quickest or easiest wood to cure and has such a gorgeous colour and grain, that it is rockin' expensive.  A case of "needs must", I suppose.

And your "tulipwood" is from the "tulip tree".  So-called because both its leaves and flowers resemble the shape of a tulip flower, it is a native of North America and just loves it in Europe.  Fast growing and with stunning butter-yellow leaves at this time of the year, puritanical old gits like me call it Liriodendron tulipifera.

Chris.


  Brits, mostly spruce, both as ply and as larger spars, (from Canada, some US Washington/Oregon) although presumably 'local' ash and yew were also mentioned.  The ply used on the late Nieuports was "tulip wood" (per the Datafile)


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