A reader loves his wood:

There's even more to get engaged by when it comes to plywood. It's perhaps the most elegant of the "engineered wood products". As a tree goes through the processes of being cruised, felled, de-limbed, skidded and transported to the mill as a merchandized log, then debarked, softened in a steam vat or pond and cut into pre-determined lengths called bolts, it's a little like a clumsy strip-tease. But it's at the lathe where God's creation is fully laid bare, slowly and almost lovingly unwrapped into a long and sensuous ribbon of veneer.