• Journal of the Korea Furniture Society
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.37-43
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• 2000

Ginkgo trees have long been planted in Korea as roadside trees and ornamental trees, but the wood was seldom used except some utilization f3r small artifacts. Soaring prices of imported wood and future uncertainty about long-term supply of foreign woods have stimulated research on value-added utilization of less-utilized domestic wood resources such as Ginkgo wood. The processing properties of Ginkgo wood were investigated to determine its utilization potential in this study, and the results of treatability, drying characteristics, gluability, paintability, bending properties, chemical discoloration characteristics were presented.

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.9-16
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• 1980

The problem of tauns having the characteristics of severe variations in quality and unequally distributed moisture content in veneer sheets after drying for plywood could be cured to a proper even moisture distribution by the peeling of veneers in a prolonged period. The poor gluability of tauns was improved by applicaton of increased resin content of glue in spreading. Combinations of tauns with lauan and kapur for plywood showed good shear strength.