Lake Forest, Illinois
Wood veneer for Lake Forest projects
Rosebud Veneer supplies architectural veneer panels and raw wood veneer to designers, architects, and fabricators throughout Lake Forest and the greater Illinois area — shipped nationwide, cut and matched to order.
Products
Veneer available in Lake Forest
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Rift White Oak Veneer
Straight, linear rift-cut white oak with a clean vertical grain — the default choice for contemporary architectural interiors.
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White Oak Veneer
White oak veneer across rift, quartered, and plain-sliced cuts, grades, and backers.
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Quartered White Oak Veneer
Quarter-sliced white oak showing the characteristic medullary ray fleck — traditional and highly figured.
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Fumed Rift White Oak Veneer
Ammonia-fumed rift white oak — deep, aged tone with the same tight linear grain, and no stain required.
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Fumed White Oak Veneer
White oak darkened right through by ammonia fuming, reacting with the timber’s own tannins for color that will not sand away.
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Gray Dyed White Oak Veneer
White oak dyed through to a controlled, repeatable gray — consistent across flitches for large specifications.
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Walnut Veneer
American black walnut with rich chocolate tones — the premium standard for cabinetry and architectural millwork.
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Quartered Walnut Veneer
Quarter-sliced American walnut with a straight, disciplined grain and even color across the leaf.
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French Walnut Veneer
European walnut with a lighter, warmer, more golden cast than its American cousin, and a livelier grain.
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Walnut Crotch Veneer
Cut from the fork where the trunk divides — the dramatic plume or feather figure prized for tabletops and center panels.
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Walnut Claro Burl Veneer
Californian claro walnut burl — swirling eyes and color streaks over a warm chocolate ground. Highly limited.
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Quartered Beeswing Walnut Veneer
A fine, shimmering mottle across quartered walnut, named for its resemblance to an insect wing. Rare and highly specified.
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Birdseye Maple Veneer
Hard maple carrying dense clusters of small conical "eyes" — a bright, energetic figure on a pale ground.
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Curly Maple Veneer
Rippling, three-dimensional curl across the grain that shifts as you move past it — also called tiger or flame maple.
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Quilted Maple Veneer
Large, billowing pockets of figure with extraordinary depth — the most dramatic of the maple figures.
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Burl Maple Veneer
Dense clusters of dormant buds in pale maple — tight, swirling eyes with almost no directional grain.
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Mappa Burl Veneer
European poplar burl with a fine, map-like tracery of dark lines over a creamy ground — excellent dyed or natural.
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Amboyna Burl Veneer
The burl of Southeast Asian narra — glowing orange-red with tight, brilliant eyes. One of the most valuable veneers in the world.
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Redwood Burl Veneer
Deep red-brown Californian redwood burl with dense, curling eye clusters — commanding at architectural scale.
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Burl Bog Sequoia Veneer
Sequoia burl recovered from bog conditions, darkened by long submersion into smoky grays and browns. Extremely limited.
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Olive Ash Burl Veneer
European ash burl with olive-toned streaking and swirling eyes over a golden ground — warm and richly patterned.
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English Harewood Burl Veneer
Sycamore burl chemically treated to a silvery gray-green — the classic English harewood of fine cabinetmaking.
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Karelian Birch Burl Veneer
Northern birch with a dense, flame-like internal figure of dark flecks in honey-gold — a genuine rarity.
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Indonesian Madrone Burl Veneer
Fine, uniform burl eyes in warm pinkish-tan — one of the most consistent burls available in large sheet sizes.
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Quilted Bubinga Veneer
African bubinga with a rolling quilted figure over deep red-brown — spectacular in large sequenced panels.
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Kevazinga Veneer
Rotary-cut bubinga taken through the buttress, producing swirling concentric bands of red and violet.
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Black Mottled Makore Veneer
African makore carrying a fine dark mottle over deep red-brown — restrained but unmistakably figured.
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Curly Makore Veneer
Makore with a tight, even curl running across a warm red ground — a lustrous, shifting surface.
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Quilted Makore Veneer
Broad, rolling quilt figure in deep red makore — dramatic across full-height wall panels.
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Quartered Ribbon Sapele Veneer
Quartered sapele showing the classic interlocked ribbon stripe that reverses in the light.
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Sapele Pomelle Veneer
A dense field of small, bubbling "pomelle" blisters across sapele — like a suspended cloud of tiny domes.
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Afromosia Veneer
A fine-textured West African hardwood in warm honey-brown, often specified as a sustainable teak alternative.
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Mozambique Veneer
Also sold as ovangkol — an African hardwood with olive-brown ground and dark, decisive stripe.
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Wenge Veneer
Near-black African hardwood with fine, close-set pale striping — the darkest natural veneer in common specification.
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Crotch Dibitou Veneer
Crotch-cut dibetou, the African walnut — a plume figure in warm golden-brown with a fine luster.
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Fumed Figured Etimoe Veneer
Figured etimoe deepened by fuming — a rich, dark red-brown carrying a soft mottle.
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Curly Anigre Veneer
Pale golden African anigre carrying a fine, even curl — light, contemporary, and widely specified for hospitality interiors.
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Figured Anigre Veneer
Anigre with a broader, more varied figure across a creamy gold ground — an even, luminous surface.
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Curly English Sycamore Veneer
The palest of the figured veneers — near-white English sycamore with a tight, silvery curl.
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Sawn European Beech Veneer
Sawn — not sliced — flat-cut European beech, giving a thicker leaf and a clean, even, pale surface.
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Tamo Ash Veneer
Japanese ash with a rare peanut-shell figure — a swirling, three-dimensional pattern unlike any other veneer.
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Figured Eucalyptus Veneer
Warm pink-brown eucalyptus with a lively, shifting figure — a contemporary favorite for feature joinery.
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Eucalyptus Beeswing Veneer
A fine, close beeswing mottle across eucalyptus — a shimmering, insect-wing surface at close range.
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Figured Gray Dyed Eucalyptus Veneer
Figured eucalyptus dyed through to a controlled gray — the figure reads as light and shadow rather than color.
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Fumed Eucalyptus Veneer
Eucalyptus deepened by ammonia fuming into a smoky brown, with the figure brought further forward.
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Fumed Quartered Curly Eucalyptus Veneer
Quartered curly eucalyptus, fumed — a tight curl over a deep smoky ground, and one of the most striking panels we press.
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Fumed Quartered Larch Veneer
Quartered larch darkened by fuming — a strong, straight grain in warm smoky brown.
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Macassar Ebony Veneer
Dramatic black and amber striping — the definitive luxury veneer, and unmatched in sequenced panel work.
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Royal Ebony Veneer
Pale straw heartwood shot through with decisive black streaks — the ebony that reads light rather than dark, though some leaves come through predominantly black.
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Santos Rosewood Veneer
Violet-brown ground with dark, decisive striping — the widely available rosewood alternative for architectural work.
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Teak Veneer
Golden-brown teak with its characteristic oily luster — the enduring choice for mid-century and marine-influenced interiors.
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Quartered Teak Veneer
Quarter-sliced teak with a straight, even grain and consistent color across the leaf.
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Zebrawood Veneer
Bold, high-contrast dark striping over pale gold — graphic and immediately recognizable.
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Bloodwood Veneer
Intense, saturated red straight from the tree — the most vivid natural color in the veneer catalog.
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Tineo Veneer
Chilean tineo — a warm red-brown ground shot through with irregular dark streaks and flecks.
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Curly Koa Veneer
Hawaiian koa with a deep, rolling curl and golden-red color — scarce, and among the most beautiful veneers made.
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Satinwood Crotch Veneer
Crotch-cut satinwood — a luminous golden plume with the satin luster the species is named for.
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Crotch Mahogany Veneer
The classic feather-figure mahogany crotch — the traditional centerpiece of fine period cabinetmaking.
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Black Limba Veneer
Pale golden limba shot through with dramatic black and gray streaking — graphic, and a mid-century staple.
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Bosse Pomelle Veneer
A dense field of small blistered pomelle figure over warm reddish-brown African bosse.
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Douglas Fir Veneer
Vertical-grain Douglas fir — warm amber tones and a strong, straight grain for Pacific-Northwest and mid-century interiors.
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Cherry Veneer
American black cherry — fine, even grain and a warm reddish brown that deepens with light and age.
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Figured Cherry Veneer
Cherry carrying curl or wave across the leaf, so the same warm ground picks up light and moves as you pass it.
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Claro Walnut Veneer
Western walnut with far more color swing than the eastern black — honey through to near-purple, often in one leaf.
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English Brown Oak Veneer
Oak colored all the way through by a fungus that stains the standing tree, giving a deep brown no dye reproduces.
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Mahogany Veneer
The classic cabinet timber — straight to interlocked grain, an even reddish brown, and it works and finishes predictably.
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Cypress Veneer
Pale golden brown with a soft, straight grain — a quieter face than the hardwoods, and lighter in weight.
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Spanish Cedar Crotch Veneer
The feathered figure taken from the fork of the tree, in the aromatic reddish timber traditionally used for humidors.
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Quartered Paldao Veneer
Gray-brown ground with dark irregular striping, quartered so the stripe runs straight down the leaf.
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Imbuya Pommele Veneer
Brazilian imbuya carrying pommele — the tight, overlapping blister figure that reads like light on water.
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Olive Ash Crotch Veneer
Ash with the olive-brown heartwood streaking, cut from the fork so the grain feathers out from the center.
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Figured Makore Veneer
African makore with a mottled, shifting figure over a pinkish-red ground — restrained until the light moves.
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Flat Cut Etimoe Veneer
Etimoe sliced flat rather than quartered, so the darker striping opens into a broad cathedral rather than a straight line.
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Quartered Ribbon Cerajera Veneer
Quartered to bring up an even ribbon stripe that alternates light and dark as the viewing angle changes.
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