ENGINEERED WOOD MEMBER AND METHOD OF ITS MANUFACTURE

摘要

The invention is a wane-free engineered wood product and the method of its manufacture. Lumber having wane along one or more edges is first mill ed to pro- duce rectangular notches along each of the four edges. The notches are sized to remove all or most of the wane. The notched piece is then ripped lengthwise to produce two strips. These are rotated 180.degree. and placed adjacently so that the notched edges face each other and form longitudinal channels. Strips of oriented strand board or a similar mate- rial are then affixed into the channels, preferably by gluing, reuniting the n again into a unitary wane-free structural member.