1. Adjacent pieces of veneer from a flitch or log are opened like a book and spliced to make up the face with matching occurring at the spliced joints. The fibers of the wood, slanting in opposite directions in the adjacent sheets, create a characteristic light and dark effect when the surface is seen from an angle.

Zusätzlich zum Düsentrockner werden die Furniere hier zwischen umlaufenden großen Trommeln gepreßt, um Welligkeit zu vermeiden.