Phenolic Baltic Birch Plywood (Black) - 12mm - 18mm

Phenolic Baltic Birch Plywood

Description

What is phenolic Baltic birch plywood? Also known as film-faced plywood, phenolic refers to the resin coating on both sides of the plywood. This film coating provides a wear resistant and waterproof surface that is smooth and glossy. 

What is Baltic Birch Plywood? Baltic Birch Plywood is high-quality plywood made from multiple layers of hardwood birch veneers. The layered birch veneers yields a mostly void-free core providing a plywood with more stability, durability and strength. The most distinctive feature of Baltic birch is that the edges are attractive, uniform stripes of hardwood veneer, usually alternating light and dark bands.

Baltic Birch Plywood is prized by woodworkers for it's uniformity, workability, thick face veneers and excellent screw holding ability. 

Applications

What makes phenolic so great? It's one of the most stable, durable and hard surfaces available to work with. The phenolic overlay helps resist cracking, abrasions, and splitting. This is useful when using this plywood for furniture and cabinetry. You can attach fasteners, screws and other mounting hardware without the normal worries of splitting the surface.

It can also withstand heavy loads and pressure and is commonly used in applications requiring high-strength materials, such as building and concrete formwork, scaffolding, and building support systems, as well as trailer walls and doors. 

Tips

To ensure longevity, seal all exposed edges after completing project or build.

Use a carbide tip with a high tooth count, and/or masking tape when cutting to avoid chip out or chipping the phenolic surface.  We also recommend scoring the surface prior to making final cut.

Use carbide bits for drilling holes. Consider placing sacrificial material beneath your panel to help prevent blow out and chipping. Taping can also help. 

Acrylic paint pens work for touch ups on chip out or blemishes.

Use a non-abrasive cleaner to avoid damaging the surface. 

Please note, the edge of a full 4'x8' sheet of material is painted. Resulting cuts to your stock size may result in some edges showing natural grain color and/or black overlay color. 

Specifications and Dimensions

• Available in nominal 1/2" (12mm) and 3/4" (18mm) thickness, including the phenol overlay. 
  
• Thickness tolerance of +/- .5mm
• All MakerStock panel dimensions are cut to tolerances of +0in/-0.188in. 
• All MakerStock panel dimensions are in inches. 
• Exterior grade Baltic Birch Plywood Core
• Phenolic melamine film density is 120 g/m2 on both sides
• Moisture and scratch resistant
• Density: 610-700kg/m3
• Two sided smooth Black Phenolic film
  

Uses

• Cabinets and Countertops
• Concrete forms
• Furniture
• Table saw extensions
• Workshop jigs and sleds