Identifying Veneer on the stump and afterwards

[CountryBoy]

How is the best way to identify veneer wood on the stump or/and after the tree has been felled?
I remember one time seeing a guy spray water on the end of the log to make it easier to see the rings etc.
Any good refrences/web sites to look at,any suggestions.

Thanks

 

[woodmills1]

take a trip over to the forestryforum.com and do a search. Great bunch of sawyers and cutters over there. For a start high quality logs are usually the first cuts, called butt logs, that come from trees that grew in competition. That is they were close enough together to self prune at an early age, so that lots of clear wood was put on slowly over time. A veneer log would look very uniform on all sides or faces, yes I know that trees are round but we speak of sides/faces as they would appear as the logs were cut on a mill. There would be no flaws, bumps, or knots showing in the bark along with no obvious flaws showing on either cut end. Most veneer log buyers are also pretty fussy about diameter, length, spacing between rings, and straightness of the log. You might also visit the woodweb.com where the good doctor Gene will answer most posts.