Brad
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Don, the trick is trying to find a test that represents years of abuse. It is very possible that the finish might wear off or be chipped off in areas leaving the wear layer unprotected. Maybe areas will become gouged over the years dropping things? If I only use a light test method, I am quite sure even contact cement would prove to be fine, but I bet we would all agree that CC would not be appropriate. Whenever the topic of one sided veneering or thicker veneers comes up the tendancy is always, no you cannot do that, must be balanced, or else...
A wear layer failure is pretty much only one thing to me. If it comes up off the substrate and I must fix it, that is a failure. Most of all the large engineered flooring co's suggest that it can be sanded 3 to 5 times, and in reality most never do it once before tearing it out during a reno. I know I could re-sand this wear layer at least that before sanding through.
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. I am bonding 24 strips to a 12"x60" piece of 1/2" BB. The strips are bonded to the substrate perpendicular to its length. If I wanted to chamfer the strips after I would either need a machine that could fit a 60" wide board or I would have to do this with a router and guide. I am chamfering the blanks in bulk on the shaper and this saves me quite a bit of time. I rough size the blanks, and then final size with a cutterhead that chamfers and sizes at the same time. After the blanks are prepped I can quickly cut them to length and off to the press I go. I prepped up 150 strips in a couple of hours.