{"id":11993,"date":"2000-01-01T11:45:34","date_gmt":"2000-01-01T18:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/?p=11993"},"modified":"2019-06-27T11:50:34","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T18:50:34","slug":"can-i-get-baltic-birch-without-football-patches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/woodworking-101\/lumber-help-faq\/can-i-get-baltic-birch-without-football-patches\/","title":{"rendered":"Can I Get Baltic Birch Without &#8220;Football&#8221; Patches?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The grade of Baltic birch plywood that we well is called &#8220;BB\/BB&#8221; \nwhich means it may have up to 6 color matched patches on one side in a \n5&#215;5 area.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently it&#8217;s the only kind we stock, so regretfully we can&#8217;t guarantee it to be any different from what it is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Patch-free Baltic birch is a much more expensive product, and more difficult to come by.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The grade we offer is a balance between cost and appearance.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have some details in our blog that explains more:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/woodworking-101\/tips-tricks\/your-ultimate-guide-to-baltic-birch-plywood-why-its-better-when-to-use-it\/\"><strong>Ultimate Guide to Baltic Birch<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In\n BB\/BB grade it&#8217;s more of a utility kind of plywood rather than a finish\n or show grade, unless you can manage to work around the patches (or \nsimply work with them).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/baltic-birch-defects.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The grade of Baltic birch plywood that we well is called &#8220;BB\/BB&#8221; which means it may have up to 6 color matched patches on one side in a 5&#215;5 area.&nbsp; Currently it&#8217;s the only kind we stock, so regretfully we can&#8217;t guarantee it to be any different from what it is. Patch-free Baltic birch is <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/woodworking-101\/lumber-help-faq\/can-i-get-baltic-birch-without-football-patches\/\">&#8230;<br \/><small><em><strong>Read More<\/strong><\/em> <i class=\"fa fa-arrow-circle-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/small><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":11994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[324],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lumber-help-faq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11995,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11993\/revisions\/11995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}