Method of manufacturing decorative wood products from engineered wood products

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for forming a decorative, resilient, wood product from an engineered structural wood product. The invention includes utilizing a sheet of engineered structural wood product, cutting the sheet lengthwise into planks, stacking the planks and adhering the planks together and slicing the edge grain off the adhered planks and placing the slices side-by-side to form large areas of exposed side grain. Alternatively, the slices can be cut directly from the engineered structural wood product. The slices can be used directly or attached to a substrate. The slices can be further treated to produce a decorative wood product. Additives can be introduced to the engineered structural wood product during the manufacture thereof to incorporate decorative elements therein which are made visible by slicing the wood product to expose edge grain.

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