What is Birch Veneer?
Birch veneer is a cream white to pale brown wood, often tinged with pink. Birch veneer is straight grained and has a fine and uniform texture. Birch can be rotary cut as a whole piece or rotary cut with seams, flat cut, quarter sliced, or flat cut figured (ice or flame Birch). This veneer glues, stains, and polishes well, making it an attractive choice for woodworkers. It is popularly used for projects making furniture, cabinetry, architectural panels, courthouses, libraries, musical instruments, office interiors, and much more.
Similar to: Birch veneer is similar to rotary-, flat-cut-, and quartered Maple, but has a rougher and more solid texture.
Other Names: American Birch (UK), White Birch (Canada)
Color: Wide creamy white sapwood (edge of the tree), with a pale brown heartwood (center, or heart of the tree), often tinged with pink.
Source: Northern United States and Canada
Uses: Birch Veneer can be used for retail fixtures, RV interiors, interior doors, store fixtures, antique restoration, hotel and elevator lobbies, and much more.
Quartered Red Birch Wood Veneer is a great straight grained veneer. Red Birch veneer with its reddish brown heart wood is where it gets its name when actually it is in the Yellow Birch family. It lends itself well to more of the rustic type projects but has a very identifiable grain pattern. It is also known as Quarter Sawn or Quarter Cut Birch.
